How to send NSDate with a certain date format as NSNumber? i.e convert NSDate to NSDate with another format?

Question

I have two user selected dates: startDate and endDate. They are NSDate instances and I have to send them as parameters as NSNumbers. How can I convert them to NSNumber with seconds?

Answer 1

1) First, get the date in MM/dd/yyyy format:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"];

2) get string date and remove '/' from it:

NString *string = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
NString *finalStr = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/" withString:@""];

3) Use NSNumberFormatter from converting NSString to NSNumber:

NSNumberFormatter *f = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
f.numberStyle = NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle;
NSNumber *myNumber = [f numberFromString: finalStr];

Hope, this is what you want!