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I have an NSDate object from which I make two NSStrings: The date and the time. Currently I format the date as 20111031 and time as 23:15.
What I would like to do is to format it to the device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) current region settings (not the language!). So for instance:
How can I do this?
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If you go onto General, then you go onto Language and Region, and you then scroll down it says Region Format Example, a time and a date. Under the date it says a specific amount of money, like £1234.56 - £4567.89.
Navigate to the HKEY_USERS\Default User\Control Panel\International registry subkey. Double-click the sShortDate registry entry. Set the value to the date format required (e.g., dd/MM/yyyy), then click OK. You can also change the sLongDate registry entry for the longer date format (e.g., dd MMMM yyyy), then click OK.
The following should be enough, because an NSDateFormatter has the phone's default locale by default:
NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
[dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
NSLog(@"%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);
FYI here's what happens with US, Netherlands, and Sweden:
[dateFormatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]];
NSLog(@"%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);
// displays 10/30/11 7:09 PM
[dateFormatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"nl_NL"]];
NSLog(@"%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);
// displays 30-10-11 19:09
[dateFormatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"sv_SE"]];
NSLog(@"%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);
// displays 2011-10-30 19:09
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