How to change the date format in iphone sdk

Question

I\'m getting Response from Webservices Date like \"2012-08-17T00:00:00\". I want to Display Date only like 17-08-2012. How Change Date format and Remove that time...

Answer 1

//String froms web service(ws) 

NSString *stringFromWS =[NSString stringWithString:@"2012-08-17T00:00:00"];


//date formatter for the above string
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatterWS = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatterWS setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"];

NSDate *date =[dateFormatterWS dateFromString:stringFromWS];


//date formatter that you want 

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatterNew = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatterNew setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];

NSString *stringForNewDate = [dateFormatterNew stringFromDate:date];

NSLog(@"Date %@",stringForNewDate);

also refer the link for more explanation http://mobiledevelopertips.com/cocoa/date-formatters-examples-take-2.html

Answer 2

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSLog(@"Date today: %@", today);

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] ;
dateFormat.dateFormat =  @"dd-MM-yyyy";
NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:today];
NSLog(@"Date: %@", dateString);

Also see the below date and time format styles

NSDateFormatterNoStyle
NSDateFormatterShortStyle
NSDateFormatterMediumStyle
NSDateFormatterLongStyle
NSDateFormatterFullStyle

You can set it like [dateFormat setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];