converting date to correct format

Question

I\'ve a webservice which gives back my date in the following way.

Wed Oct 31 11:59:44 +0000 2012

But I want it to give it back in this way

Answer 1

Step 1: create an NSDateFormatter to convert your string from server to an NSDate object by setting the format to the format of the "server string"

NSDateFormatter *f = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[f setDateFormat:@"E MMM d hh:mm:ss Z y"];
NSDate *date = [f dateFromString:@"Wed Oct 31 11:59:44 +0000 2012"];

Step 2: create another NSDateFormatter with the desired output string and convert your new NSDate object to a string object using the new NSDateFormatter

NSDateFormatter *f2 = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[f2 setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-y hh:mm"];
[f2 setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];
NSString *s = [f2 stringFromDate:date];

desiredformat = s;

P.S. I'm not sure of f format, check this link http://www.developers-life.com/nsdateformatter-and-uifont.html