Getting Current Time in string in Custom format in objective c

Question

I want current time in following format in a string.

dd-mm-yyyy HH:MM

How?

Answer 1

Either use NSDateFormatter as Carl said, or just use good old strftime, which is also perfectly valid Objective-C:

#import 
time_t currentTime = time(NULL);
struct tm timeStruct;
localtime_r(¤tTime, &timeStruct);
char buffer[20];
strftime(buffer, 20, "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M", &timeStruct);