iOS Help with Dateformatter and NSDate

[pashik]

Hello.
i have date as string "Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500"
and i'm trying to create NSDate from it with this code

[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500"];

Date is always nil.

Can someone help me with this?

 

[dejo]

You're not using the correct patterns for the setFormatter. Check this out:
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-4.html#Date_Format_Patterns

More about all of this in the Data Formatting Programming Guide for Cocoa in your iPhone OS Library Documentation.

 

[pashik]

You're not using the correct patterns for the setFormatter. Check this out:
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-4.html#Date_Format_Patterns

More about all of this in the Data Formatting Programming Guide for Cocoa in your iPhone OS Library Documentation.

I used also this format with same result - date is nil

@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZ"

 

[dejo]

You're starting by defining dateFormatter like so:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

correct?

I tried the following code block and date was not nil:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZ"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500"];

 

[pashik]

You're starting by defining dateFormatter like so:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

correct?

I tried the following code block and date was not nil:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZ"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500"];

It looks like after installing sdk 2.2 date is not nil any more even if i set target sdk to 2.0.

thank you.