How to change the date format in iphone sdk

Question

I\'m getting Response from Webservices Date like \"2012-08-17T00:00:00\". I want to Display Date only like 17-08-2012. How Change Date format and Remove that time...

Answer 1

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSLog(@"Date today: %@", today);

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] ;
dateFormat.dateFormat =  @"dd-MM-yyyy";
NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:today];
NSLog(@"Date: %@", dateString);

Also see the below date and time format styles

NSDateFormatterNoStyle
NSDateFormatterShortStyle
NSDateFormatterMediumStyle
NSDateFormatterLongStyle
NSDateFormatterFullStyle

You can set it like [dateFormat setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];