Passing a formatted NSDate

Question

Formatted dates that I am passing to an instance method are not saving/printing the correct date. Can someone please help?

Calling method code snippets:

Answer 1

Next works perfect for me:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];

NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"13-09-2011"];
NSLog(@"%@", date);