NSDateFormatter wrong string after formatting

Question

I receive a date through a string parameter, which is tempDateString, in a [day month year] format (for ex. 01 05 2005):

 NSLog(@\"tempdatestring %@\", tempD         


        

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter *form = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[form setDateFormat:@"dd MM yyyy"];
form.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:-7200.0];
NSDate *dayDate = [form dateFromString:@"05 10 2012"];
NSLog(@"daydate %@", dayDate);
NSString *strDate = [form stringFromDate:dayDate];
NSLog(@"strDate %@",strDate);

Change date format to @"dd MM yyyy". After this, dateFromString may still parse the wrong date (in my case it was yesterday 21-00). To avoid this I've set TimeZone in my DateFormatter:

form.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:-7200.0];

-7200.0 is my timezone, you should change this to yours ("0" sets to Greenwich). After this log looks like:

daydate 2012-10-05 02:00:00 +0000
strDate 05 10 2012