nsdateformatter

I have the date that is in format 2010-11-17 .This is of the form NSString . I want to convert this NSString date into format 17 Nov 2010 and display in a label This date is just not the current date but may even be the older dates. So I cant use the [NSDate date] instance to get the date. I tried using NSDateFormatter with the method dateFromString . But it gives me a null value. Here is the code snippet NSString *dates = @”2010-11-16”; NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd MMM yyyy"]; NSDate *dates1 = [dateFormatter dateFromString

this one is killing me, I have the following date formatter: + (NSDateFormatter *)dateFormatter { static NSDateFormatter *_dateFormatter = nil; static dispatch_once_t onceToken; dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{ NSString *format = [NSDateFormatter dateFormatFromTemplate:@"hh:mm a" options:0 locale:[NSLocale currentLocale]]; _dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [_dateFormatter setDateFormat:format]; }); return _dateFormatter; } I want the final hour format to be according to the user clock settings, so if the user uses "24-Hour Time", the result should be for example: 19:41 Otherwise the