On Feb 23, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:50 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: > >> I have a need to format times as either >> >> 24:mm >> >> or >> >> 12:mm >> am >> >> That is, if the user prefers a 24-hour clock, I want it to appear on a >> single line. If the user prefers a 12-hour clock, I want the AM/PM >> designator to be rendered underneath the time (in smaller type). >> >> Unfortunately, there's no format specifier for the hours of the day that >> indicates "use the user's preferred format." > > What happens if you give +[NSDateFormatter > dateFormatFromTemplate:options:locale:] a template that contains "h:m:s a"? > Does it rewrite it to "H:m:s" if the current locale uses 24-hour time?
If you're going to go with this route, you'd need to use "j:m:s". According to The Spec (http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns), "use of 'j' in a skeleton passed to an API is the only way to have a skeleton request a locale's preferred time cycle type (12-hour or 24-hour)." Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ 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
