Reputation: 1480
I want to get the date from xml data ,which is in a string like as given below "Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:25:00 -0600" how can i set the nsdateformatter for this type of date " -0600 is the time zone". Please help me
Upvotes: 0
Views: 418
Reputation: 112873
See: ICU Formatting Dates and Times
Also: Date Field SymbolTable., look specifically at "Z".
Z Time Zone: ISO8601 basic hms? / RFC 822 -0800
Example:
NSString *dateString = @"Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:25:00 -0600";
NSLog(@"dateString: %@", dateString);
Input dateString:
dateString: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:25:00 -0600
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [NSDateFormatter new];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"E, dd MMM yyyy H:mm:ss Z"];
NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:dateString];
NSLog(@"date: %@", date);
Output (in timezone GMT):
date: 2015-02-06 17:25:00 +0000
To create a string from the date in a specific format:
NSDateFormatter *displayFormatter = [NSDateFormatter new];
[displayFormatter setDateFormat:@"E, dd MMM yyyy H:mm:ss Z"];
[displayFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"CST"]];
NSString *displayString = [displayFormatter stringFromDate:date];
Output (in timezone CST):
displayString: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:25:00 -0600
Upvotes: 2