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

Maybe this will be more readable :

    NSDateFormatter *date = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [date setDateFormat:@"HH:mm"];
    NSString *dateString = [date stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
    [self.time setText:dateString];

First of all we create an NSDateFormatter built-in in obj-c with the name date, then we apply it by [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; . After that we say to the code procesor that we want our date to have HOUR/MINUTE/SECOND. Finally we should make our date to be an string to work with alert or set value of a label , to do this we should create an string with NSString method then we use this : [date stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]

Have Fun with It .