How to create an NSDate date object?

Question

How can I create an NSDate from the day, month and year? There don\'t seem to be any methods to do this and they have removed the class method dateWithString<

Answer 1

A slightly different answer to those already posted; if you have a fixed string format you'd like to use to create dates then you can use something like:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

dateFormatter.locale = [NSLocale localeWithIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"]; 
    // see QA1480; NSDateFormatter otherwise reserves the right slightly to
    // modify any date string passed to it, according to user settings, per
    // it's other use, for UI work

dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"dd MMM yyyy"; 
    // or whatever you want; per the unicode standards

NSDate *dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:stringContainingDate];