I am trying to produce a date from a string with the following:
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd, yyyy HH:mm:ss"];
NSLog(@"ENDINGDATE: %@", [closure objectForKey:@"ENDINGDATE"]);
NSDate *tempDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:[closure objectForKey:@"ENDINGDATE"]];
The ENDINGDATE NSLog produces the following:
ENDINGDATE: April, 21 2011 20:00:00
Everything seems to be fine, so I am stumped as to why tempDate is being set to nil. Any ideas? Thanks!
The , is misplaced. It should be after MMMM. So the format should have defined as MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:ss.
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MMMM, dd yyyy HH:mm:ss"];
Please try after removing comma...
You can use following date formates:
d Day of the month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit days.
dd Day of the month as digits; leading zero for single-digit days.
EEE Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation.
dddd Day of the week as its full name.
m Month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit months.
mm Month as digits; leading zero for single-digit months.
MMM Month as a three-letter abbreviation.
mmmm Month as its full name.
yy Year as last two digits; leading zero for years less than 10.
yyyy Year represented by four digits.
h Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock).
hh Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock).
H Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock).
HH Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock).
M Minutes; no leading zero for single-digit minutes.
Uppercase M unlike CF timeFormat‘s m to avoid conflict with months.
MM Minutes; leading zero for single-digit minutes.
Uppercase MM unlike CF timeFormat‘s mm to avoid conflict with months.
s Seconds; no leading zero for single-digit seconds.
ss Seconds; leading zero for single-digit seconds.
Yep, if the prototype format doesn't exactly match the actual format you get nil. The misplaced comma is likely your problem (or at least part of it).
