NSDate/NSDateFormatter - Storing only time, not date?

Question

I\'ve been looking around but I haven\'t seen anything that addresses this so I\'m hoping someone can help clear this up for me. What I am trying to do is use an NSDate variable

Answer 1

After thinking this through a bit, and trying Mundi's answer, it looked like Mundi was creating a string from a string without creating an NSDate or converting to or from an NSDate. I needed to store an NSDate as well, so here's how you can get what you want fairly easily:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss a"];
NSDate *eventDate = [dateFormat dateFromString:[attributeDict objectForKey:@"cumulativeTime"]];
NSDateFormatter *timeFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[timeFormat setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]];
[timeFormat setDateFormat:@"HH:mm:ss a"];
NSString *timeString = [timeFormat stringFromDate:eventDate];
NSLog(@"EventDate: %@",timeString);

Mundi's answer works, so someone should upvote his answer since I down voted too fast without taking into account that leaving off the date @"1/21/13 00:14:00" doesn't really matter in this case, but he should have put a date in front of it to make it clear that the date isn't output. Someone's variable from a web service or some other object would have the date, then the @"HH:mm:ss a" would pull out the time only. This also helps those who need the AM/PM on their date or time.