> On Nov 23, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Sandor Szatmari <admin.szatmari....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
> What spec are you referring to? Link? I was playing around with
> NSDataDetector for pulling dates out of strings in XML dumps of excel files
> for an internal tool I was writing. NSDataDetectors seemed powerful, but
> failed when the dates weren't totally well formed (Tested on 10.8.5, SDK
> 10.8); the dates were still totally recognizable by humans, just missing some
> whitespace here or there. It did handle differently formatted dates very
> well though. I ended up using regular expressions to 'parse' the dates as
> there was just one format I was dealing with and the issue was just the
> missing whitespace. Maybe I didn't know how to configure it to be more
> flexible or tolerant of the format deviations?
Fortunately, Twitter seems to do things consistently. I'll reg-exa it if I
discover problems in testing, but it works for now. Using
setDateFormat("[standard symbols]") did the job.
>
> Sandor
>
> On Nov 23, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you looked into The spec for date formatting?
>>
>> It is seriously helpful. It's some ISO document.
>>
>> Specify the format at which the date is coming in and it should convert.
>>
>> I will send you my crappy routines for this for iOS.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Nov 23, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Nov 23, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Sandor Szatmari
>>>> <admin.szatmari....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Alex,
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried looking at NSDataDetector.
>>>> http://nshipster.com/nsdatadetector/ <http://nshipster.com/nsdatadetector/>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think that would apply here, though; I
>>> have some JSON data that includes a date as a string. I need to convert
>>> that to an NSDate object so I can then display it however the user wants,
>>> or compare it to now, and such. However, that's a really useful page (I
>>> love NSHipster) and I'll save it for another project I'm thinking about
>>> where data detectors will be useful.
>>>>
>>>> Sandor
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 16:12, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com
>>>>> <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey list,
>>>>> I’m using NSDateFormatter.dateFromString() to make a date from the date
>>>>> string in a tweet. However, it seems to be returning nil, and I’m not
>>>>> sure why. Is there something else I have to do, like tell the formatter
>>>>> what order to expect components to be in? The string is something like:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Sun Nov 22 21:00:39 +0000 2015”
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any suggestions anyone has.
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