NSDateFormatter, am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Question

I\'m trying to print out the date in a certain format:

NSDate *today = [[NSDate alloc] init];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]         


        

Answer 1

Setting locale on date formatter to en_US fixes the problem for me:

    NSDateFormatter * f = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [f setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"];
    f.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0];
    f.calendar = [[[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease];
    f.locale = [[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"] autorelease];

I'm not sure if adding the calendar is also needed, but this works well.