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David Silverfarmer
David Silverfarmer

Reputation: 455

NSDateFormatter dateFromString format string issue

I encountered a small problem today: I receive a couple of dates (NSString) from a web server. To use those dates correctly they need to be parsed into NSDate objects, for which I'm using the following code:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
formatter.dateFormat = @"dd.MM.yyy HH:mm:ss";
return [formatter dateFromString:dateString]

The dates I am receiving are in the following format e.g.: @"02.06.2015 13:31:24".

My problem is that the above code returns nil. I think the issue probably is that I don't have the correct format string, which I have not been able to get right..

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 95

Answers (3)

Nikita Khandelwal
Nikita Khandelwal

Reputation: 1741

-(NSDate *)getDateFromString:(NSString *)string
{
    NSString * dateString = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@",string];
    NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss"];
    NSDate* myDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
    return myDate;
}

Call it wherever required :)

[self getDateFromString:@"13.07.2013 16:22:11"];

Upvotes: 0

Santu C
Santu C

Reputation: 2654

Please try below code - 

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
formatter.dateFormat = @"dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss";
return [formatter dateFromString:dateString]

Upvotes: 0

Jasper
Jasper

Reputation: 7107

You are missing a 'y' in your format. It should be:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
formatter.dateFormat = @"dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss";
return [formatter dateFromString:dateString]

Upvotes: 3

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