Separate Time from NSDate format like string?

Question

I am having a Date String in this format \"2012-09-06 04:57:00.000\". I need to separate the time in that string in 04:57AM like that. help me out of this ?

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"hh:mm:ss a"];
NSString *timeStr =  [formatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

The above code is with ARC otherwise you need to release formatter like

formatter release