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Mohammed Ebrahim
Mohammed Ebrahim

Reputation: 869

date formatting using nsdate formatter

I am getting data in following format

20130224233000 where,

2013 - year
02 month 
24 day

23 hh 
30 mm
00 ss

and I want in following format

Wednesday, 24-Feb-13  11:30 PM

I tried as below code

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mma"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:today];
return dateString;

but it give a format which I don"t required

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4105

Answers (3)

Ric
Ric

Reputation: 8805

You need two NSDateFormatters, one to convert to NSDate and the other to NSString. Use the format table as reference.

NSString* date = @"20130224233000";
NSDateFormatter *parser = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[parser setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMddHHmmss"];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"eeee, dd-MMM-yy hh:mm a"];
NSString *dateString = [formatter stringFromDate:[parser dateFromString:date]];
return dateString;

Upvotes: 3

βhargavḯ
βhargavḯ

Reputation: 9836

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormat setLocale:[[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"] autorelease]];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEEE, dd-MMM-yy HH:mm a"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:today];
return dateString;

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

yeesterbunny
yeesterbunny

Reputation: 1847

Try this:

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEE d-MMM-yy HH:mma"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:today];
return dateString;

Upvotes: 0

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