Get current time on the iphone in a chosen format

Question

The following should give me an NSDate object of 9:30:

NSString *dateString = @"09-30";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"hh-mm"];
NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];

How do I get the current time in the same format?

Answer 1

NSDate *currentTime = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"hh-mm"];
NSString *resultString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate: currentTime];

Answer 2

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"hh-mm"];
NSDate *currentDate = [NSDate date];
NSString *currentDateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:currentDate];