How to format Facebook/Twitter dates (from the JSON feed) in Objective-C

Question

For my iPhone application...

I am looking for a way to format the Facebook created_time JSON property value.

\"created_time\": \"2010-12-0

Answer 1

NSString *yourInputFBdate = @"2010-12-02T20:12:06+0000";
NSString *fbDate = [yourInputFBdate stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"T" withString:@" "];
fbDate = [fbDate stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"+" withString:@" +"];
NSDate *date = [[NSDate alloc] initWithString:fbDate];

/// do something with date ...

[date release];