Is it possible to convert input string with any format into date?
I want to receive ate and time from textfield with any format like date: may 22 2000, wed may 20, may, 30 2000 etc.. and also need to get correct value according to the local timezone.
please help?
NSDateFormatter can help convert any type of date NSString to NSDate. The important thing is to use the right format for the date.
Here is some code you can try
NSString *dateString = #"01-02-2010";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:#"dd-MM-yyyy"];
NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
You will have to set the date format to whatever format your string is in. Here are some date format specifiers: (Complete list here)
eeee - Local day of week spelled out
yyyy - year (4 digits)
MMMM - Month spelled out
dd - day of month with no leading zeros
HH - hour of day (24 hour format)
mm - minutes of hour (with leading zero)
Edit
The date format for the following dates will be:
May 03 2000 : "MMM dd yyyy"
Mon, Jan 03 : "eee, MMM dd"
Mon 31 Jan : "eee dd MMM"
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I'm trying to format a date using NSDateFormatter however for some dates, formatted the same way, it returns the time without the first digit, and for others it returns null.
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [NSDateFormatter new];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:#"EEEE dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm"];
dateFormat.locale = [NSLocale localeWithLocaleIdentifier:#"en_AU"];
NSDate *startDate = [dateFormat dateFromString:startString];
NSDate *endDate = [dateFormat dateFromString:endString];
This date: "Saturday 1/21/2017 17:00" will return (null)
This date: "Thursday 2/9/2017 14:00" will return 2017-09-02 04:00:00 +0000
This date: "Thursday 2/9/2017 20:30" will return 2017-09-02 10:30:00 +0000
Can anyone shed some light on where I am going wrong.
Thanks
EEEE dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm to EEEE MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm. Just a small mistake inverting days and months place.
Because, clearly "Saturday 1/21/2017 17:00", means the 21th of January, because the 21th month in a year doesn't exist (at least, not here).
For the 10h difference, it's due to time zones. In en_AU (east coast I guess), there is a 10h difference from GMT.
I have this code to convert a string to date:
NSString* strToConvert;
NSDate* dtToReturn;
//...code to parse string
NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:#"MM/dd/yy, HH:mm:ss a"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];
dtToReturn = [dateFormatter dateFromString:strToConvert];
I send it this string "08/30/16 02:22:00 PM"
and it returns this date: 2016-08-30 16:22:00 +0000
which is expected since I am +4 from GMT
But if I send it this string: "08/30/16 03:22:00 PM"
it returns the same date: 2016-08-30 16:22:00 +0000
I only pass one string at a time to the method. Am I doing something wrong in my dateformatter?
Because strToConvert uses AM/PM hour time and date formatter is using 24 hour time, this leads to a wrong date conversion. Fix date formatter's dateFormat to use AM/PM hour time: #"MM/dd/yy, hh:mm:ss a"
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NSDateFormatter dateFromString returns date with wrong month
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I have an web service that spits out some dates, and in my iOS app, I'm converting UTC date to local date. I have verified that the web service is spitting out UTC dates and that iOS recognizes it as UTC.
Once i have converted my web service JSON to an NSMutableArray, set a break point and type po [listOfTasks valueForKey:#"LASTEMAILDATE"]
Results
<__NSArrayI 0x157068c80>(
,
7/28/2016 2:01:41 PM,
7/28/2016 2:01:39 PM,
7/28/2016 2:01:42 PM
)
Now, i do a for loop
for (int i = 0; i < listOfTasks.count; i++) {
FireStormCategories *cat = [listOfTasks objectAtIndex:i];
NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setDateFormat:#"mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"];
NSDate *date = [df dateFromString:cat.LASTEMAILDATE];
MNLog(#"%# was changed to %#", cat.LASTEMAILDATE, [df stringFromDate:date]);
}
that log spits out
was changed to (null)
7/28/2016 2:01:41 PM was changed to 01/28/2016 02:01:41 PM (expecting: 7/28/2016 10:01:41 AM )
7/28/2016 2:01:39 PM was changed to 01/28/2016 02:01:39 PM (expecting: 7/28/2016 10:01:39 AM )
7/28/2016 2:01:42 PM was changed to 01/28/2016 02:01:42 PM (expecting: 7/28/2016 10:01:42 AM )
my first object has no date, the (null) is expected, however, this is where I'm confused. my other 3 dates are changed to a date that reflects 6 months ago and the hours should go back 5 (EST).
You are using wrong format for month. MM is used for month and mm is used for minutes
[df setDateFormat:#"mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"];
should be
[df setDateFormat:#"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"];
The 01 you are getting is the minutes from the date.
So in my project a user from USA set some time say it was 10:30 am
and now when a person some another country see that time then it should be according to their timezone .
For Example in USA it is 5:30 am now
and in india it is 6:30 pm , so if after 5 hours a person in india sees that then that person should see 6:30 pm for that post
Use php function gmdate()
string gmdate(string $format[,int $timestamp= time()] )
Identical to the date()function except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Parameters format The format of the outputted date string. See the formatting options for the date() function. timestamp The optional timestamp parameter is an integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if a timestamp is not given. In other words, it defaults to the value of time().Return Values Returns a formatted date string. If a non-numeric value is used for timestamp, FALSE is returned and an E_WARNING level error is emitted.
in timestamp add the interval to.
Ex if GMT zone is 5 say then add timestamp+5*60*60
Use below function:
class func getDateWithFormat(format: String) -> NSDate {
var dateFormatter: NSDateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.localTimeZone()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = format
var newDate: NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateFormatter.stringFromDate(NSDate()))
return newDate
}
Eg: var todaysDate: NSDate = NSDate.getDateWithFormat("dd:mm:yyyy hh:mm:ss a")
I created the below function to solve this problem.
How it works: suppose this was your local time converted to GMT zero - 2016-04-14 21:00:00 +0000
and when I convert it using following function, I'm here in New Delhi India, which has GMT+05:30, then I will get time 2:30 of morning.
+(NSString*)getLocalTimeFromGMTzero : (NSString*)GMTzerioTimeString {
NSDateFormatter *df = [NSDateFormatter new];
[df setDateFormat:#"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"];
//Create the date assuming the given string is in GMT
df.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0];
NSDate *date = [df dateFromString:GMTzerioTimeString];
//Create a date string in the local timezone
df.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone].secondsFromGMT];
NSString *localDateString = [df stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(#"date = %#", localDateString);
return localDateString;
}
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String formatted date picker date is off
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I have found a strange behaviour in NSDateFormatter with LLLL YYYY format, where it returns year 2015 for both 2015-01-01 and 2016-01-01 dates.
Am I missing something or is it a bug in the formatter class?
Code to reproduce:
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [NSDateFormatter new];
formatter.dateFormat = #"LLLL YYYY";
NSDate *d1 = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:1420070400]; // 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
NSDate *d2 = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:1451606400]; // 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z
NSLog(#"%# => %#", d1, [formatter stringFromDate:d1]); // 2015-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 => January 2015
NSLog(#"%# => %#", d2, [formatter stringFromDate:d2]); // 2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 => January 2015
Both cases print "January 2015", but I would expect "January 2016" in the second case.
You should use yyyy instead of YYYY, because YYYY is something different...
A deeper explanation from the docs:
A common mistake is to use
YYYY. yyyy specifies the calendar year whereas YYYY specifies the year
(of “Week of Year”), used in the ISO year-week calendar. In most
cases, yyyy and YYYY yield the same number, however they may be
different. Typically you should use the calendar year.
You should use yyyy, not YYYY.