create a NSDate from a string

Question

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.

Answer 1

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:str];  NSLog(@"%@", date); 

Edit: Sorry, the format should be as follows:

formatter.dateFormat = @"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a"; 

And the time shown will be GMT time. So if you add/subtract the timezone, it would be 9:15 PM.

Edit: #2

Use as below. You would get exact time too.

NSString *str = @"3/15/2012 9:15 PM";  NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];  formatter.dateFormat = @"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a";  NSTimeZone *gmt = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"GMT"];  formatter.timeZone = gmt;  NSDate *date = [formatter dateFromString:str];  NSLog(@"%@",date);