Can't put a single quote before the year in NSDateFormatter

Question

I want to format my date as follows:

Mon, Apr 14 \'09

The dateFormat I\'m setting for my NSDateFormatter is

Answer 1

From http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-31/tr35-dates.html#Date_Format_Patterns:

In patterns, two single quotes represents a literal single quote, …

In your case:

 [formatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, MMM dd ''yy"];