iOS Determining 12 or 24 hour time

[Labeno]

Hey all,
Is there an iPhone API to determine if the iPhone is set to 12 or 24 time mode?
I want my apps to print time according to the iPhone system settings.
Thanks.

 

[admanimal]

Hey all,
Is there an iPhone API to determine if the iPhone is set to 12 or 24 time mode?
I want my apps to print time according to the iPhone system settings.
Thanks.

You will want to use an NSDateFormatter, which respects the system date and time formats.

 

[123321]

Determining 12 or 24 hour time

I need to determine 12 or 24 hour time for puproses other than printing time. NSDateFormatter cannot answer directly, so I need some other way. How can I deal with that task?

 

[Pring]

You can't, there's no API calls available to determine that. Make it a user preference in Settings.app if it's that important to your app.

 

[kainjow]

Kind of ugly, but you could create a date of today at 1:00 PM and then get the string value from NSDateFormatter. If it's 13:00 then you know it's 24-hour. The value could then be cached so you only do it once.