Date format conversion issue with NSDateFormatter

Question

I'm doing the following code:

NSString *stringToFormat = ticket.date;
NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setDateFormat:@"dd MMMM yyyy"];

df.locale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier: @"ro_RO"];
[df setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.yyyy"];
NSString *final = [df stringFromDate:[df dateFromString:stringToFormat]];
self.dateLabel.text = final;

The problem is that final is nil? Why?

Answer 1

Two issues in your code:

1. You are using the same instance of date formatter with two different date format.
2. You have wrong date format set to fit your input date.

Here is corrected code:

NSString *stringToFormat = @"16.Octombrie.2015 10:02";

NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
df.locale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier: @"ro_RO"];
[df setDateFormat:@"dd.MMMM.yyyy hh:mm"];

NSDateFormatter *df2 = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
df2.locale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier: @"ro_RO"];
[df2 setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.yyyy"];

NSString *final = [df2 stringFromDate:[df dateFromString:stringToFormat]];

You have to also set locale to first date formatter to let formatter recognise Octombrie as valid month.