String description of NSDate

Question

I have the following code:

[ [NSDate date] descriptionWithLocale: @\"yyyy-MM-dd\" ]

I want it to return a date in the following format: \"2009-

Answer 1

You are using the wrong method. Instead try descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale:

[[NSDate date] descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%Y-%m-%d"
                                    timezone:nil
                                      locale:nil];

Also note that the method is expecting a different format than the one in your question. The full documentation for that can be found here.

EDIT: Though as Mike noted, you really should be using NSDateFormatter. There are some problems with descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timezone:locale: that Apple mentions in the documentation.