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NSDateFormatter Trouble?

I am trying to parse an RSS feed, but the date is hard to parse. The date string is: publishedDate = "2013-01-08T20:09:02.000Z"

Here is my code:

NSDateFormatter *utc = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[utc setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"]];
[utc setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"];
NSDate *dtUTC = [utc dateFromString: publishedDate];

NSDateFormatter *dfLocal = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dfLocal setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"];
[dfLocal setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];

NSString *time =[dfLocal stringFromDate:dtUTC];
NSLog(@"original UTC %@  now local: %@", dtUTC, time);

Why is date returning nil? Also, i am trying to convert UTC time to CST Time.

Solution

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     [utc setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.'000Z'"];