String description of NSDate

Question

I have the following code:

[ [NSDate date] descriptionWithLocale: @\"yyyy-MM-dd\" ]

I want it to return a date in the following format: \"2009-

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
[dateFormatter release];  // delete this line if your project uses ARC
NSLog(@"%@",dateString);