Retrieving NSDate from NSString

Question

I have an iPhone app. that is receiving data with IRFC 3339 timestamp format (e.g. @"2010-01-29T11:30:00.000+01:00"), as in GData. I want to convert the data to an NSDate

NSDateFormatter *inputFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[inputFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS"];
[currentEntry setStartTime:[inputFormatter dateFromString: ][currentEntry startTimeString]]];

But I'm missing out how to convert the last part of the string @"2010-01-29T11:30:00.000+01:00": the time offset. Anyone knows what I have to add to this String to take the time offset in account too?

Answer 1

I believe "Z" in the format string specifies the timezone offset

Answer 2

If you are doing a lot with GData, I also recommand using google's objective-c client code, they provided classes to help in creating standard Objective-C objects from the GData.

Answer 3

You will need to strip out the colon and add "ZZZ" to the format string. This parses time zone offsets like "+100" or "-500".