How to format a NSDate in dd/MM/YYYY

Question

I'm trying to get an NSDate into the format: 20/05/2014 22:30

here's the code I currently have. [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"]; this works but the format is not like 20/05/2014 22:30 it displays the date in format like: 12-03-2013 12:00:00 +00:00:00

and then when I use:

[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"]; I get a null value returned instead of a formatted date.

// timestamp conversion
    NSString *str = [timeStamp objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    // convert to date
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  //  [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"];

 [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"];

    NSDate *dte = [dateFormat dateFromString:str];
    cell.timeStampLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",dte ];

the str original string output before formatting is str 2013-08-23T15:21:19+02:00

thanks for any help

Answer 1

you have to do like this but please first of check your str's date format

NSString *str = [timeStamp objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"];


NSDate *dte = [dateFormat dateFromString:str];

[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm"];
cell.timeStampLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[dateFormat stringFromDate:dte]];

first time set date format same as in your str.