I missed the rest of this thread so I don't know what platform you're on, but recent OS X has new date/time manipulation functions that can help you with ensuring you're talking about a valid time. AFAIK, they're not yet in iOS (grr).
On Mar 31, 2014, at 14:31 , Quincey Morris <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:04 , D. Felipe Torres <warorf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I found out it only fails under my current timezone: > > I went to stackoverflow to read the outcome, and for completeness I’ll report > here that the above isn’t true. > > It doesn’t fail under your particular timezone. It fails under *any* > timezone, if the specified time is invalid — if the time is within the hour > that’s skipped during a transition into daylight savings time. > > The “fix" you describe there isn’t a fix at all, because (at least) it lies > to the user. > > The real problem is that the string you’re trying to interpret is flat out > invalid, and there seem to me to be two possible solutions: > > 1. If you insist on interpreting the string as a date, then you must solve > the problem upstream of the NSDataFormatter conversion. That is, you must > ensure that the string is valid before you feed it to NSDateFormatter. > > 2. If all you care about is interpreting the string as a data description > (that is, something formatted like a date but not necessarily having a valid > set of numbers) then you should scan the string as text and break it into > components textually. If you want to localize the result according to the > user’s date/time preferences, there may be a route involving > NSCalendarComponents, but you’d need to deal with potential error returns > each step of the way. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/rmann%40latencyzero.com > > This email sent to rm...@latencyzero.com -- Rick
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