NSDateFormatter dateFromString Always Returns nil

Question

I want to apologize ahead of time for asking a repeat question, but none of the other solutions have worked for me yet. Every time I try to pass a date string to the dateFro

Answer 1

There are two issues here:

1. The format of date string the formatter is expecting (@"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss") is different from the format of the date string you're trying to parse (@"EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy 'at' h:mm:ss a zzzz").

2. Setting the formatter's locale to [NSLocale systemLocale] is causing [dateFormat dateFromString:] to return nil. Set it to [NSLocate currentLocale].

The full code for the formatter should be:

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]];
    [dateFormat setLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy 'at' h:mm:ss a zzzz"];
    [dateFormat setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehaviorDefault];

    NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:dateString];