nsdateformatter

I'm having a problem with the NSDateFormatter . It is returning null for some specific dates. I did this function to debug the case: - (void) debugTest:(NSString *)dateStr{ NSLog(@"String: %@", dateStr); NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"]; NSDate *dateObj = [df dateFromString: dateStr]; NSLog(@"Date: %@", dateObj); } This is my log output for some dates: String: 2012-10-18 Date: 2012-10-18 03:00:00 +0000 String: 2012-10-19 Date: 2012-10-19 03:00:00 +0000 String: 2012-10-20 Date: 2012-10-20 03:00:00 +0000 String: 2012-10-21 Date: (null) String

I have a strange problem with those lines of code : NSDateFormatter * df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [df setDateFormat:@"MMyyyy"]; NSDate * date = [df dateFromString:@"062008"]; NSLog(@"Date %@", date); The result is : Date (null) But when I change the month like this : NSDateFormatter * df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [df setDateFormat:@"MMyyyy"]; NSDate * date = [df dateFromString:@"072008"]; NSLog(@"Date %@", date); The result is : Date 2008-06-30 23:00:00 +0000 For only the month of June (06), the date conversion from string fails ! I think, it's something related to timezone,

My team found that we were using a variety of NSDateFormatter objects throughout our code base, and started looking into how we could avoid the cost/confusion of allocating/initializing common formatters in a bunch of separate places. One idea we had was to create a category on the NSDateFormatter class that would provide a reference to a static instance of a commonly configured formatter. For example, we were using the "short time" date formatter in several places, and were looking to add the following class method: @implementation NSDateFormatter (NSDateFormatter_PDDateFormatters) static

So my intention is to put out dates that would look like the following: Today, August 28 Tomorrow, August 29 Friday, August 30 ...etc The issue is that it seems I can only get so close. When I setDoesRelativeDateFormatting:YES and setDateStyle to Full and setTimeStyle to None , it yields results like this: Today Tomorrow Friday, August 30, 2013 This yields the year and does not yield month and date for today and tomorrow. The other code I've tried is this: [NSDateFormatter dateFormatFromTemplate:@"eeeedMMM" options:0 locale:[NSLocale currentLocale]]; and that yields the following: Wednesday,