iOS NSDate Comparison works differently when the 24-Hour Time in date settings toggles between ON and OFF?

Question

Team, I am comparing the date which is formed from string using NSDateFormatter with the iOS system date. The below statement returns true when the system date time settings

Answer 1

23 May 2013 15:37:00 is a 24 hour format string.So the correct date is obtained using the 24 hour format date formatter .Thats it

So use

[fmt setDateFormat:@"dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"];

Answer 2

See Apple's Technical Q&A 1480.

You need to set the date formatter's locale to the special locale of en_US_POSIX. You also need to specify a 24-hour hour format - HH, not hh.

-(NSDate *)getDateFromString:(NSString *)dateString{
    NSLocale *posix = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"];
    NSDateFormatter* fmt = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [fmt setLocale:posix];
    [fmt setDateFormat:@"dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"];

    return [fmt dateFromString:dateString];
}