NSDateFormatter “Month” in 3 letters instead of full word

Question

    NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@\"dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm\"];        
    [formatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone syst         


        

Answer 1

IF you get the two things in the wrong order, you don't get the expected output.

[formatter setDateFormat:@"MMM"];
[formatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];

does NOT give the same results as:

[formatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"MMM"];

(The second of these two snippets is now happily handing out Sep Oct etc in my app)