NSDateFormatter “Month” in 3 letters instead of full word

Question

    NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@\"dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm\"];        
    [formatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone syst         


        

Answer 1

for swift 4 go with:

if let dateFormatter = DateFormatter(){
    dateFormatter.dateStyle = .medium
    // eventually:
    //let locale = Locale(identifier: ...                       
    //dateFormatter!.locale = locale
    dateFormatter.dateStyle = .medium
    dateFormatter!.dateFormat = "dd MMM YYYY, HH:mm:ss"
 } else..
        ..

Answer 2

Actually you can set your dateStyle to medium (ie 'Jan', 'Feb' etc) like this:

[formatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];

Answer 3

Have you tried: [formatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MMM-YYYY HH:mm"]; and then [formatter stringFromDate:someNSDate];

Answer 4

In SWIFT

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy HH:mm"

dateFormatter.stringFromDate(NSDate())

Answer 5

IF you get the two things in the wrong order, you don't get the expected output.

[formatter setDateFormat:@"MMM"];
[formatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];

does NOT give the same results as:

[formatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"MMM"];

(The second of these two snippets is now happily handing out Sep Oct etc in my app)

Answer 6

For those who do not get a full month strong with "MMM", you can get it with

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMMM yyyy"

Tested on Swift 4.2