> On Nov 22, 2015, at 5:06 PM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote: > > >> On 2015 Nov 22, at 13:12, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Is there something else I have to do, like tell the formatter what order to >> expect components to be in? > > Yes, and more. You must set the dateFormat property of your date formatter > exactly. > > Documentation of property ‘dateFormat’ refers you to click on the “Date > Formatting Guide”. From there, you click on “Date Formatters”. Once there, > scroll down to "Use Format Strings to Specify Custom Formats” and what to > your wondering eyes does appear but a list of links to Unicode Consortium > standards. Click on the one for the OS version you are targetting. Once > there, read the fine print carefully. After 20 minutes or so you should have > it working :)
Thanks! I thought, for some reason, that NSDateFormatters could figure out the date from any string with the necessary information—I guess I was thinking of AppleScript. One follow-up, as I’m looking at all this: is there a reason to use setDateFormat over templates? The header for NSDateFormatter keeps talking about template strings, but online, all I see is setDateFormat(“some formatted string”). I haven’t dug deeply into this yet, so feel free to ignore this question if it’s quite obvious. I thought I’d ask while I was responding, before I go back to the docs. Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mehgcap%40icloud.com > > This email sent to mehg...@icloud.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
