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Ankit Goyal
Ankit Goyal

Reputation: 3049

iOS: UIDatePicker returning date in Arabic

My phone's language is Arabic but I want to choose date in english only. I have used calendar as well as locale property of date picker but none is working. I want to get date in English only. My code is as follows:

 UIDatePicker *datePicker  = [[UIDatePicker alloc]init];
[datePicker setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 100, self.view.frame.size.width, 216.0)];
datePicker.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerModeDate;
[datePicker setLocale: [NSLocale localeWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]];
[datePicker addTarget:self action:@selector(updateDateField:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
 NSCalendar *gregorianCalendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian];
[datePicker setCalendar:gregorianCalendar];
[self.view addSubview:datePicker];


-(void)updateDateField : (UIDatePicker*)datePicker{
NSLog(@"____ %@",datePicker.date);}

The output is: ٢٠١٤-٠٣-٠٩ ١٠:٣٦:٤١ +0000 but I want the output in english only so that I can store the selected date on the server

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1849

Answers (3)

River2202
River2202

Reputation: 1407

NSLog(@"____ %@",datePicker.date) will call the datePicker.date.description by default to format the output string. and the default NSDate description will use the system default locale that is why you got Arabic output.

-(NSString *)description is NSObject's method which is called when a subclass of NSObject is ‘converted to a string’. NSDate itself doesn't include any locale information. But NSDate's description method will create a formatter and use the system's locale.

If you want it to be somewhere in your UI, you should not use default description method, you have to create your own DateFormatter to format the output with correct locale and format you want.

Alternatively you can make an extension to NSDate and overwrite description function with your customised DateFormatter.

Upvotes: 0

Sergey
Sergey

Reputation: 1617

You need to use DateFormatter for this. I don't now what format your need send to server. So this is shot example from apple:

let RFC3339DateFormatter = DateFormatter()
RFC3339DateFormatter.locale = Locale(localeIdentifier: "en_US_POSIX")
RFC3339DateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"
RFC3339DateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone(forSecondsFromGMT: 0)

let date = Date()
let string = RFC3339DateFormatter.stringFromDate(date)

Upvotes: 3

Manu Mateos
Manu Mateos

Reputation: 184

Try using a NSDateFormatter and set the locale to it, then get stringFromDate from the dateController and the date you already have.

Upvotes: 0

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