On Jan 19, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > I want to print a date on iOS 5.0.1 ignoring the locale. > (this is for logging - not for showing strings to users) > > I assume that NSDate has no sufficient parameters to control the output. > So I tried to use NSDateFormatter. > > The desired output is something like: > NSString *template = @"HH:mm:ss EEE dd. MMM yyyy zzz"; > > NSString *dateFormat = [ NSDateFormatter dateFormatFromTemplate: template > options: 0 locale: nil ]; > NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [ [ NSDateFormatter alloc ] init ]; > [ dateFormatter setDateFormat: dateFormat ]; > NSString *dateString = [ dateFormatter stringFromDate: someDate ]; > [ dateFormatter release ]; > > 1. problem: > The date gets output as year, month, day which is NOT what I specified. > > 2. problem: > The output is: date time, NOT time date as requested. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Kind regards, > > Gerriet.
Maybe this is what you are looking for: NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"HH:mm:ss EEE dd. MMM yyyy zzz"]; NSString* dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate: [NSDate date]]; [dateFormatter release]; NSLog(@"\n%@", dateString); prints: 11:31:42 Thu 19. Jan 2012 GMT+01:00 The documentation could be a bit more clear in this regard, but please re-read it ;) Andreas_______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
