How to turn a NSString into NSDate?

Question

Ive been racking my brains with no luck. Could someone please tell me how i would convert this string:

\"2011-01-13T17:00:00+11:00\"

into a NSDate?

Answer 1

put the T part in single quotes, and check the unicode docs for the exact formatting. In my case, I have something similar, which I do this:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS"];

Again, not exactly the same, but you get the idea. Also, be careful of the timezones when converting back and forth between strings and nsdates.

Again, in my case, I use:

[dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"America/New_York"]];