Convert integer to a date string

Question

In Objective-C: Is there a simple way, as in Excel and SAS, to convert an integer into a datetime string?

In Excel, you'd format to "mmm dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss".

For instance, if I had the integer: 1328062560

and I want the output to be: 2012-01-31 21:16:00

or even (as in Excel): Jan 31, 2012 21:16:00

PS: I don't want to be too demanding, but I'd like it simple and inline for use in NSLog, so I can write simply for debugging
NSLog("The time as an integer is %d and as a date %mmmddyyyyhh:mm:ss", [array objectAtIndex: i], [array objectAtIndex: i]);

Answer 1

You can get an NSDate object like this:

NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:1328062560];

Then, if you don't care about the exact format of the string, you can just do this:

NSString *s = [date description];

That will give you a string like “2012-02-01 02:16:00 +0000”.

If you want a specific string format, use an NSDateFormatter.