NSDateFormatter doesn't work

Question

Hi !

I got a string : 2012-11-07 15:22:06 and I want to do a NSDateFormatter on it. I do it :

NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setDateFormat:@"HH:mm, MMMM d, yyyy"];
NSString *date = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@", [df dateFromString:myString]];

But it doesn't work, it returns " (null) ".

Hope that somebody will help me.

Thanks

Answer 1

so the format you set, is [df setDateFormat:@"HH:mm, MMMM d, yyyy"];

the string myString is @"2012-11-07 15:22:06"

=> doesnt match

--- so what I gathered reading your comments on other answers:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
@autoreleasepool {
    NSString *myString =  @"2012-11-07 15:22:06"; //yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

    //convert to date
    NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss"];
    NSDate *myDate = [df dateFromString:myString];
    NSLog(@"%@", myDate); //2012-01-07 14:22:06 +0000

    //output it in natural language        
    NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];
    [df setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
    [df setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
    [df setLocale:usLocale];
    NSLog(@"%@", [df stringFromDate:myDate]); //Jan 7, 2012
}
}

Answer 2

Your format isn't even close to the string's format. Use:

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

Answer 3

Use this format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss to get the format: 2012-11-07 15:22:06.

To get the format :7th November 2012 Use this function:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
[dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterLongStyle];
NSString *string=[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
NSDate *newDate=[dateFormatter dateFromString:string];