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Reputation: 83

NSDateFormatter dateFromString with format 'hh:mm a' return nil

i came across a problem in my iPhone application.

in my app i converte time string to date like that

NSString *time = @"01:30 PM";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"hh:mm a"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:time];

and for some reason always date is nil after [dateFormat dateFromString:time].

can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong?

thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 757

Answers (3)

Ravi
Ravi

Reputation: 2451

try this...

NSString *time = @"01:30 pm";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"hh:mm a"];
dateFormat.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:time];

NSLog(@"date %@",[dateFormat stringFromDate:date]);

Upvotes: 1

Ahsan
Ahsan

Reputation: 825

I'm assuming your device language is other then English. In that case you need to set the date formatter Locale. Try this code.

NSString *time = @"01:30 PM";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"hh:mm a"];
[dateFormat setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"]];

Upvotes: 2

Ramesh_T
Ramesh_T

Reputation: 1261

    NSString *dats1 = @"01:30:00 PM";
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter1 = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] ;
    [dateFormatter1 setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
    [dateFormatter1 setDateFormat:@"HH:mm:ss"];
    NSDate *date = [dateFormatter1 dateFromString:dats1];
    NSLog(@"date : %@", date);

    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@"hh:mm a"];
    NSLog(@"Current Date: %@", [formatter stringFromDate:date]);

Upvotes: 0

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