Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates

2011-09-27 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 28 Sep 2011, at 04:51, Vincent Spader wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:41 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > >> The following code produces an empty string: >> >> calender = [ [ NSCalendar autoupdatingCurrentCalendar ] retain ]; >> NSString *dateTemplate = @"eeeddHHmmss"; >>

Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates

2011-09-27 Thread Vincent Spader
On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:41 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > The following code produces an empty string: > > calender = [ [ NSCalendar autoupdatingCurrentCalendar ] retain ]; > NSString *dateTemplate = @"eeeddHHmmss"; > NSLocale *locale = [calender locale]; // en_I

Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates

2011-09-27 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 27 Sep 2011, at 22:03, glenn andreas wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > >>> >>> In general, what happens if you temporarily remove the locale and time zone >>> settings? >> The time zone settings have been already removed, because setting the locale >> al

Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates

2011-09-27 Thread glenn andreas
On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: >> >> In general, what happens if you temporarily remove the locale and time zone >> settings? > The time zone settings have been already removed, because setting the locale > also sets the time zone. NSLocale has no idea about time zon

Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates

2011-09-27 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 27 Sep 2011, at 21:39, Fritz Anderson wrote: > On 27 Sep 2011, at 3:41 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > >> [ dateFormatter setGeneratesCalendarDates: YES ]; > ... >> NSLog(@" now \"%@\"", [dateFormatter stringFromDate: [NSDate date]]); > > NSCalendarDate is really most sincerely de

Re: NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates

2011-09-27 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 27 Sep 2011, at 3:41 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: > [ dateFormatter setGeneratesCalendarDates: YES ]; ... > NSLog(@" now \"%@\"", [dateFormatter stringFromDate: [NSDate date]]); NSCalendarDate is really most sincerely deprecated, and you're feeding the formatter an NSDate, not a

NSDateFormatter refuses to format dates

2011-09-27 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
The following code produces an empty string: calender = [ [ NSCalendar autoupdatingCurrentCalendar ] retain ]; NSString *dateTemplate = @"eeeddHHmmss"; NSLocale *locale = [calender locale]; // en_IE NSString *dateFormat = [ NSDateFormatter dateFormatF