NSDateFormatter in iPad issue

Question

I have this NSString :

2010-05-29T16:31:49.000Z

And i want to convert it to NSDate with this method:

NSDateFor         


        

Answer 1

A note from http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. Thanks to borrrden for bringing this to notice.

Times are expressed in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), with a special UTC designator ("Z").

NSString *inputString = @"2010-05-29T16:31:49.000Z";

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [NSDateFormatter new];
[dateFormatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc]initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"]];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSz"];

NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:inputString];

Answer 2

This has been asked many times already. Your formatter is invalid for your input string:

yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSX

Not sure which one of the time-zone patterns you are using, so maybe XXX or XXXX should be used at the end.

See http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-dates.html. Note that Z is not allowed for time-zone pattern ZZZ.