Nsdateformatter returns me day in language of the phone selected. Can it return me only English all the time?

Question

I am using dateformatter to get days and time in the my application. But I am facing an issue when I change the language of the phone dateformatter returns me day and time of th

Answer 1

Try with this code:

NSDate *date=[NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *objTimeFotmatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[objTimeFotmatter setDateFormat:@"HH:mm"];
[objTimeFormatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]
autorelease]];
NSDateFormatter *objDayFotmatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[objDayFotmatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
[objDayFotmatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]
autorelease]];
NSString *objTime=[objTimeFotmatter stringFromDate:date];
NSString *objDay=[objDayFotmatter stringFromDate:date];
[objDayFotmatter release];
[objTimeFormatter release];

NSLog(@"objTime=%@",objTime);
NSLog(@"objDay=%@",objDay);

Answer 2

Swift

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US") as Locale!
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"
let resultsDate = dateFormatter.string(from: date)

Answer 3

Add the following lines to the dateformatter.

NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];
[dateFormatter setLocale:usLocale];

In your case,

NSDateFormatter *objTimeFotmatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[objTimeFotmatter setDateFormat:@"HH:mm"];
NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];
[objTimeFotmatter setLocale:usLocale];

Similarly for all dateformatters.