Oh, "j" works on iOS if you pass it to -dateFormatFromTemplate:options:locale:, but only if you pass [NSLocale currentLocale] and not nil.
On Mac OS X, the 12/24-hour format in the Clock is different than in the International settings. Changing the clock has no effect, but I haven't verified that changing the time format does. -- Rick On Feb 23, 2012, at 11:37 , Dave DeLong wrote: > > 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
