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

Yet another way to get nil is if you use hh and your hours are on the 24 hr clock and > 12, in that case, you need HH (or H, for zero-padded).

That is:

• Format: yyyy-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, string: "2016-03-01 13:42:17" will return nil
• Format: yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss, string: "2016-03-01 13:42:17" will return the date you expect.

Hat-tip to @neilco (see comments below his answer) for this. If you like this answer, please up-vote his, too.