iPhone NSDateComponent wrong Date 1.1.2011?

Question

I set a Date with 'DateFromComponents" and when I read it out... its wrong. I have to set the DAY to the 2nd or anything later so I get the right Year?!? I set year 2011 and when I read it out i get Year 2010 !!

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 day = 1;
 month = 1;
 year = 2011;
 NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
 NSDateComponents *components = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
 [components setDay:day];
 [components setMonth:month];
 [components setYear:year];
 NSDate *date = [gregorian dateFromComponents:components]; 
 [gregorian release];


 NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; 
 [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"DD MMMM YYYY"];
 NSLog (@"hmm: %@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:actDate]);

------- Here I get 1 January 2010 /// 2010 not 2011 !?!?

how to fix that.

thx chris

Answer 1

I ran this code:

NSInteger day = 1;
NSInteger month = 1;
NSInteger year =0;
NSCalendar *gregorian;
NSDateComponents *components;
NSDate *theDate;
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter;
for (int i=2005; i<2015; i++) {
     year= i;
    gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
    components = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
    [components setDay:day];
    [components setMonth:month];
    [components setYear:year];
    theDate = [gregorian dateFromComponents:components]; 
    [gregorian release];


    dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; 
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"DD MMMM YYYY"];
    NSLog(@"year=%d",year);
    NSLog (@"hmm: %@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:theDate]);
    NSLog(@"theDate=%@\n\n",theDate);
}

... and got this output:

 year=2005
 hmm: 01 January 2004
 theDate=2005-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2006
 hmm: 01 January 2006
 theDate=2006-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2007
 hmm: 01 January 2007
 theDate=2007-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2008
 hmm: 01 January 2008
 theDate=2008-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2009
 hmm: 01 January 2008
 theDate=2009-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2010
 hmm: 01 January 2009
 theDate=2010-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2011
 hmm: 01 January 2010
 theDate=2011-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2012
 hmm: 01 January 2012
 theDate=2012-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2013
 hmm: 01 January 2013
 theDate=2013-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

 year=2014
 hmm: 01 January 2014
 theDate=2014-01-01 00:00:00 -0600

Clearly the problem is in the formatter and not the date. However, I don't see what could be wrong with the formatter. .

Edit:

Shifting:

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"DD MMMM YYYY"];

... to:

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"DD MMMM yyyy"];

... solves the problem although I don't know why.