my NSDateFormatter works only in the iPhone simulator

Question

I use a NSDateFormatter which works fine in the simulator, but I get a nil when I run it in the iPhone. I hardcoded the date to be sure of the format, but it fails anyway. <

Answer 1

strptime rescued me aswell.

struct tm time;
if (strptime([modDateString UTF8String], "%A, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", &time)) {
            NSString *rDate=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d +0000",
                             time.tm_year+1900, time.tm_mon+1, time.tm_mday,
                             time.tm_hour, time.tm_min, time.tm_sec];

This code works with HTTP dates like Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:53:56 GMT and Fri, 8 May 2009 08:08:35 GMT which was the original question