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

For those finding this question who want to use NSDateFormatter to parse 24-hour time and are hitting this bug, using NSDateComponents to parse dates and times which have a known format sidesteps this issue:

NSString *dateStr = @"2010-07-05";
NSString *timeStr = @"13:30";

NSDateComponents *components = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
components.year = [[dateStr substringToIndex:4] intValue];
components.month = [[dateStr substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(5, 2)] intValue];
components.day = [[dateStr substringFromIndex:8] intValue];
components.hour = [[timeStr substringToIndex:2] intValue];
components.minute = [[timeStr substringFromIndex:3] intValue];

NSCalendar *calendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];

NSDate *date = [calendar dateFromComponents:components];

[components release];
[calendar release];