Extract Date and Hour from NSDate - Objective C - ios

Question

I have dateString with this format "mm/dd/yyyy '-' HH:mm".
I want to extract the date in string and hour in string.
I've tried the following code but this return a wrong date:
- (void) extractDate: (NSString *)dateString intoHour: (NSString *)hourLabel and: (NSString*)dateLabel {
NSDateFormatter *formatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[formatter setDateFormat:#"mm/dd/yyyy '-' HH:mm"];
NSData *date = [formatter dateFromString:dateString];
NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSCalendarUnitDay | NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitYear | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit fromDate:date];
hourLabel = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%lu:%lu", [components hour], [components minute]];
dateLabel = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%lu/%lu/%lu", [components day], [components month], [components year]];
}
Exemple String: "05/01/2015 - 11:15"
Result: date: 1/1/2015, time: 11:15
and also how can I maintain this date format dd/mm/yyyy, I mean when the day is 1, it shows 01

Answer 1

Not tested but:
MM for the month. Not mm which is minutes.
You already have a NSDateFormatter so why not use it again instead of NSDateComponents and NSString formats?
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[formatter setDateFormat:#"MM/dd/yyyy '-' HH:mm"];
NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:dateString];
//Now you have the correct date. So we'll use the NSDateFormatter to transform NSDate (date) into NSString according to the format we need.
[formatter setDateFormat:#"MM/dd/yyyy"];
dateLabel = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
[formatter setDateFormat:#"HH:mm"];
hourLabel = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
hourLabel/dateLabel as NSString and not UILabel is quite a misleading var naming.