NSDateFormatter +dateFormatFromTemplate:options:locale: BUG?

Question

Please see below codes and output.

 NSDateComponents *dateComponents = [[[NSDateComponents alloc] init] autorelease];
 [dateComponents setYear:2011];
 [dateC         


        

Answer 1

The template format string should be @"yyyyMMMd" (lowercase "y" for year).

Uppercase "Y" is something else (see Unicode Date Format Patterns).