How to parse ISO 8601 using NSDateFormatter with optional milliseconds part

Question

I\'m trying to use an NSDateFormatter to parse dates that are in either of these formats

@\"2013-02-01T14:21:00\"

or

@\"201         


        

Answer 1

I wrote an universal parser which dropped milliseconds part.

@implementation JSONModel(NSPAdditions)

- (NSDate *)NSDateFromNSString:(NSString*)string {
    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"]];
    NSArray* parts = [string componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet: [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@" T"]];
    if ([parts count] <= 1) {
        return [formatter dateFromString:string];
    }
    NSString *part0 = parts[0];
    NSAssert([part0 length] == [@"yyyy-MM-dd" length], @"Date format error");
    NSString *part1 = parts[1];
    if ([part1 length] > [@"HH:mm:ss" length]) {
        part1 = [part1 substringToIndex:[@"HH:mm:ss" length]];
    }
    NSString *fmted = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", part0, part1];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
    return [formatter dateFromString:fmted];
}

@end