NSDateFormatter, am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Question

I\'m trying to print out the date in a certain format:

NSDate *today = [[NSDate alloc] init];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]         


        

Answer 1

Using the code you posted on both the simulator and a phone with the 2.1 firmware and 24-hour time set to off, I never had an AM/PM appended to dateStr when I do:

NSLog(@"%@", dateStr);

Are you doing anything else with dateStr that you didn't post here? How are you checking the value?

Follow up

Try turning the am/pm setting on then off. I didn't have the problem either, until I did that. I am printing it out the same way you are.

Okay, I see it when I do this also. It's gotta be a bug. I recommend you file a bug report and just check for and filter out the unwanted characters in the meantime.

Answer 2

I think this is the solution .

NSDateFormatter *df =[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
        NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];

[df setLocale: usLocale];

[usLocale release];

 NSDate *documento_en_Linea =[[[NSDate alloc] init]autorelease];

documento_en_Linea=[df dateFromString:@"2010-07-16 21:40:33"];

[df release];

        NSLog(@"fdocumentoenLineaUTC:%@!",documento_en_Linea);


//ouput  
     fdocumentoenLineaUTC:2010-07-16 09:40:33 p.m. -0500!