iPhone OS: How do I create an NSDate for a specific date?

Question

Seems like a simple thing but I can't seem to find a way to do it.

It would be great to see a couple different methods.

Answer 1

@Chuck's answer is correct, and lead me to the following code. Thought I'd share:

NSDateComponents *comps = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init]; [comps setDay:10]; [comps setMonth:10]; [comps setYear:2010]; NSDate *date = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] dateFromComponents:comps]; 

Answer 2

You can use this

NSString *dateString = @"03-Sep-11"; NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"dd-MMM-yy"; NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString]; 

Hope this will help you out.