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Jan49
Jan49

Reputation: 1818

Getting wrong time from NSDateFormatter

When I try to get values for date and time from text fields I got wrong value on console. Date and time are two text fields 

NSString *datestring = self.date.text;
NSString *timestring = self.time.text;
NSString *combined = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@",datestring,timestring];
NSLog(@"%@",combined);
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss"];
NSDate *dates = [dateFormat dateFromString:combined];

NSLog(@"%@",dates);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 203

Answers (2)

zaph
zaph

Reputation: 112857

Do not rely on the NSDate description method to give you the date you want, it is really just for debugging. Instead use NSDateFormatter method stringFromDate:.

NSString *combinedDateString = @"may 2 2000 02:00 AM";
NSLog(@"combinedDateString: %@", combinedDateString);

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd yyyy hh:mm aa"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:combinedDateString];

NSString *recoveredDateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(@"recoveredDateString: %@", recoveredDateString);

NSLog output:

combinedDateString: may 2 2000 02:00 AM
recoveredDateString: May 02 2000 02:00 AM

Choose a different display format as desired.

Note: "HH" is for 24 hour time, "hh" is for 12 hour time.

See ICU Formatting Dates and Times for date formatting.

Upvotes: 1

Plokstorm
Plokstorm

Reputation: 27

You have wrong formatter, it must be:

[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd yyyy hh:mm aa"];

You have already open a subject: I didn't get correct time when using time formatter

Upvotes: 0

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