Passing a formatted NSDate

Question

Formatted dates that I am passing to an instance method are not saving/printing the correct date. Can someone please help?

Calling method code snippets:

Answer 1

You have to check your formatting string. It follows these official formats.

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];

Small m is for minute, cap M for the month.

Answer 2

http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-10.html#Date_Format_Patterns

Make sure you check your formatted NSDates to this. They are case-sentitive so make sure you use them correctly

Answer 3

Next works perfect for me:

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

NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"13-09-2011"];
NSLog(@"%@", date);