iPhone NSDateFormatter Timezone Conversion

Question

I am trying to create a formatter that will convert the date format shown to an NSDate object:

NSString *dateStr = @\"2010-06-21T19:00:00-05:00\";
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Answer 1

This is the default time format I got from a Sinatra ActiveRecord backend. Here is my solution.

-(NSDate *) dateFromString:(NSString *)string{
    NSMutableString * correctedDateString = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:string];
    [correctedDateString deleteCharactersInRange: NSMakeRange(22, 1)];

    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZ"];

    return [formatter dateFromString:correctedDateString];
}