Create NSDate with String time from 1970

Question

I have a string that its value is time. The time is formmated with "time from 1970". How can I convert this string to a nsdate object?

Answer 1

I did not understand what you meant by "The time is formatted with 'time from 1970'" But here is how to convert a string formatted long containing the number of seconds since 1970 to a NSDate object:

NSDate * date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:[longValueString longLongValue]];

Sometimes the time coming from the servers are in milliseconds. In that case you need to divide it with 1000.

NSDate * date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:[longValueString longLongValue]/1000];