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Reputation: 6829

Problem with parsing NSString to NSDate

I have XML with this value:

<LastModifiedOnDate>2011-04-02T00:00:00</LastModifiedOnDate>

I am trying to parse this on iPhone from NSString to NSDate but have no luck.

NSDateFormatter *formate = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];  
        [formate setDateFormat:@"yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss"];  
        //NSString *strConcat = @"2010-09-24 17:30:00";  
        NSDate *date = [formate dateFromString:string];

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1066

Answers (3)

Rakesh Bhatt
Rakesh Bhatt

Reputation: 4606

NSString *string=@"2011-04-05T12:43:56.537";
NSDateFormatter *formate = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];  
[formate setDateFormat:@"yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss.SSS"];  
NSDate *date = [formate dateFromString:string];

its working..

Upvotes: 1

Black Frog
Black Frog

Reputation: 11703

You don't need all those apostrophes in your format string. The only ones you need are around the T. 

NSDateFormatter *formate = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];  
[formate setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"];
// I recommend setting a timezone because it will use the system timezone and that
// can cause confusion with your data.  
// [formate setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];
NSString *strConcat = @"2010-09-24T17:30:00";  
NSDate *date = [formate dateFromString:strConcat];
NSLog(@"Date: %@", date);  // remember NSDate default to current timezone when logging to console

If you string have fraction of seconds, then add SSS to your string format: [formate setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS"];

For additional information on date formatting check out Unicode Technical Standard #35.

Upvotes: 4

Jhaliya - Praveen Sharma
Jhaliya - Praveen Sharma

Reputation: 31722

Replace your's SetDataFormat function with below and let me know for the result ...

    [formate setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss"];

Upvotes: 1

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