NSDateFormatter dateFromString and iPhone in 24 Hour Format Confusion

Question

I\'m having a problem. I get incoming time strings in 12-hour format, and I\'m turning them into NSDate objects. When the iPhone is in 12 hour format, no problem. But when i

Answer 1

The reason for this behaviour is Locale, set the correct Locale

    NSString *strAgendaDate = @"01/17/2012 12:00 AM";
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

    [dateFormatter setLocale:[[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"] autorelease];

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:AgendaDateFormatForMeeting];
    NSDate *meetingDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:aStrDate];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:AgendaDateRepresentation];
    strAgendaDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:meetingDate];

It works for both 24-hour and 12 hour format