iOS : Date format - 20-Sep-2012

Question

I want to display the date in the format "20-Sep-2012" from the string "2012-11-22 10:19:04". How can i do this? Is there any in-built method for iOS?

Answer 1

NSString *myString = @"2012-11-22 10:19:04";
NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";     
NSDate *yourDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:myString];
dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"dd-MMM-yyyy";
NSLog(@"%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:yourDate]);

your log will print like this. 22-Nov-2012

Answer 2

Try this,

NSString *originalDateString = @"2012-11-22 10:19:04";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];//2012-11-22 10:19:04

Then use it to parse the date string as,

NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:originalDateString];

You can create a new dateformatter to print in the new format or just reuse the existing one as,

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MMM-yyyy"];//22-Nov-2012
NSString *formattedDateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(@"Date in new format is %@", formattedDateString);