Can't convert from NSString to NSDate

Question

I can\'t convert my NSString to NSDate. here\'s the code:

+ (NSDate *) stringToNSDate: (NSString *) dateString{
[NSDateFormatter setDefaultFormatterBehavior:NSDa         


        

Answer 1

From the information you've given, the problem appears to be that your dateString separates the date components with slashes (\), but your date formatter is expecting dashes (-).

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Edit

To answer your other question, you can use stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:.

For example:

NSString *date1 = @"2012/12/10 ...";
NSString *date2 = [date1 stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/" withString:@"-"];

Note that this will replace every / with -, so just be careful about timezones etc.

Answer 2

Try this instead:

[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"]];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss ZZZ"];