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I have a feed of items displayed in table cells, part of which is a date / timestamp in the past. In Objective-C, how can I accomplish formatting them in the same manner as the jquery.timeago plugin on the web? That is, taking in a date and outputting things like: 'just now' '2 minutes ago' '24 days ago' 'a month ago' I see there is an NSDate extension class here with methods such as dateWithDaysBeforeNow, dateWithMinutesBeforeNow, etc, but if there is a library out there that has already done this I will use it. EDIT: Further to this, if someone composes a method (takes a date, returns a

I have an NSString like this: @"3/15/2012 9:15 PM" and I would like to convert it to NSDate , I have done like this: NSString *str =@"3/15/2012 9:15 PM"; NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init]; [formatter setDateFormat:@"mm/dd/yyyy HH:mm"]; NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:]; NSLog(@"%@", date); // date = null Can you help me please, thanks. Ilanchezhian Use the following solution NSString *str = @"3/15/2012 9:15 PM"; NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; formatter.dateFormat = @"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm a"; NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString

I am working on time based reminder App. in which the user enter his reminder and time for the reminder. The problem is that how to continuously comparing the current time with the user defined time. Any sample code will greatly help. because i am stuck on this point. valvoline Comparing the current time vs. the user defined one is not the right design pattern. UIKit offers the NSLocalNotification object that is a more high-level abstraction for your task. Below is a snip of code that create and schedule a local notification at the choosen time: UILocalNotification *aNotification = [

I'm using NSDate to get a string such as "18 Jun 09", with code: NSDate *theDate = [NSDate date]; NSString *dateString = [theDate descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%d %b %y" timeZone:nil locale: nil]; This works, but only results in an English output. I need the output to be localized in the user's default language. Does Cocoa (Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 in this case) provide a facility for this localization or do I have to manually localize for each case of day and & month names my self? (I have provided a locale, but although that does provide a locale-specific ordering of the date, it does not