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nishitpatel
nishitpatel

Reputation: 652

How to get NSDate in "dd/MM/yyyy" formate ios?

I am working with NSDate i created one function which give Today date with "dd/MM/yyyy" format but NSDate always show "nil" value. I googled lot and also see lots of stackoverflow answer but all answer return NSString value not NSDate value so please guide me to get NSDate with given format.

+(NSDate*)getCurrentDate{
     NSDateFormatter *DateFormatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
     [DateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"];

     //Date print here
     NSLog(@"Utility CurrentDate: %@",[DateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]);    
     NSString *dateString = [DateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
     NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

     NSDateFormatter *newDateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
     [newDateFormatter setDateFormat:DATE_FORMAT];
     //Date print here
     NSLog(@"New Date: %@",[newDateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]);
     NSDate *dateFromString = [newDateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];

     return dateFromString;

}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1814

Answers (4)

Hussain Shabbir
Hussain Shabbir

Reputation: 15035

Refer the below modified method in dd/MM/yyyy format:-

+(NSString*)getCurrentDate{
    NSDateFormatter *format=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
    [format setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ZZZ"];
    NSString *currentDt=[format stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
    NSDate *dt=[format dateFromString:currentDt];
    [format setDateFormat:@"dd/MM/yyy"];
    return [format stringFromDate:dt];
}

Upvotes: 0

Anoop Vaidya
Anoop Vaidya

Reputation: 46563

The issue is here 

NSDate *dateFromString = [newDateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];

Here your dateString is 2014-12-11 03:41:31, hence it is not getting formatted. You should change either newDateFormatter or DateFormatter to convert as per your requirement.

EDIT:

Replace [DateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"]; with [DateFormatter setDateFormat: DATE_FORMAT];

But your return date will not be in the desired way, since you are returning an NSDate Object. You should return a formatted string.

Upvotes: 3

gnasher729
gnasher729

Reputation: 52622

You are completely misunderstanding what NSDate is and does. An NSDate is an absolute point in time. It has no format. It cannot have a format. It is absolutely impossible to have an NSDate in "dd/MM/yyyy" format or in any other format.

When you want to display a date to the user, you use NSDateFormatter to convert the NSDate into a string. In any format you like.

Upvotes: 2

Urmi
Urmi

Reputation: 344

check here Convert date from string or you can use this methods to convert.

These all three functions you can use to format date values..

-(NSString*)getStringFromDate:(NSDate*)pDate withFormat:(NSString*)pDateFormat{
NSDateFormatter *dtFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dtFormatter setDateFormat:pDateFormat];
[dtFormatter setLocale:[NSLocale systemLocale]];
return [dtFormatter stringFromDate:pDate];}

-(NSDate*)getDateFromString:(NSString*)pStrDate withFormat:(NSString*)pDateFormat{
NSDateFormatter *dtFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dtFormatter setDateFormat:pDateFormat];
[dtFormatter setLocale:[NSLocale systemLocale]];
return [dtFormatter dateFromString:pStrDate];}

-(NSString*)dateStringFromString:(NSString *)dateToConver format:(NSString *)fromFormat toFormat:(NSString *)toFormat{
NSDate *date = [Helper getDateFromString:dateToConver withFormat:fromFormat];
return [Helper getStringFromDate:date withFormat:toFormat];}

Upvotes: 1

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