How to convert a string into an NSDate?

Question

Let's say I have something like 30-10-2025 12:53, how could I convert that to an NSDate? I guess there's some class that takes this plus an format string that tells it how the date looks as a string, so it can parse it... where must I look?

Answer 1

You can use the NSDateFormatter class for this purpose.

Answer 2

You can use NSDateFormatter

 NSDateFormatter *k= [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  [k setFormat:@"your string format"] //ex @"MM/DD/yyyy hh:mm:ss" 
 NSDate *d=[k dateFromString:yourString];
 [k release]

Here is a reference DateFormatter ref

Answer 3

You can find a few examples here on using NSDateFormatter

Date Formatter Examples Take 1

Date Formatter Examples Take 2

Date Formatter Examples Take 3