Converting string MM/DD/YYYY to NSDate

Question

In my app i\'m using Facebook Graph API and when I\'m fetching user details i get the user\'s birthday as a string with format MM/DD/YYYY.

My question is, how can

Answer 1

Add [dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]]

Answer 2

You are doing everything fine. Your problem is only the format string.

• Capital M is month.
• Small d is day.
• Small y is year.

Just use these symbols consistently and you should be fine.

Answer 3

Using NSDateFormatter you can convert directly from a NSString to a NSDate. Here's an example:

NSDateFormatter* myFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[myFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"];
NSDate* myDate = [myFormatter dateFromString:@"8/26/2012"];
NSLog(@"%@", myDate);

See Unicode.org for details on date formatting patterns.

Answer 4

For exactly such cases NSDateFormatter exist.