Wrong time from NSDateFormatter

Question

I have a string that I want to parse the time from:

NSString *longdate = @\"Mar 27, 2011 8:38:38 PM\";

I want to parse this date and output jus

Answer 1

Found the problem. Had nothing to do with timezones and everything to do with using the wrong formatting codes for the date formatter.

[inFormat setDateFormat:@"MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss aaa"];

should be:

[inFormat setDateFormat:@"MMM dd, yyyy h:mm:ss aaa"];

Likewise, outFormat's dateformat should be:

[outFormat setDateFormat:@"h:mm aaa"];

After this adjustment everything works fine even w/o any TimeZone adjustments.

Answer 2

You've got your timezones messed up. IIRC, NSDateFormatter (by default) will parse stuff in the UTC timezone (+000), but dates are NSLogged in your current timezone. Or something like that.

Anyway, check your timezones.

Answer 3

As Dave said, check your time zones. You can tell the date formatter to use your current time zone as well:

[outFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];