iphone NSDate with NSDateFormatter Problem

Question

All i am trying to do, is to get an NSString with the value of the current date ( NOW )

with this format:

7/14/10 8:20 PM

Exactly like the native mail app of the iPhone.

i am using the following code to do it:

 NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
 [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZ"];
 [dateFormat setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterFullStyle];
 NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

but the still the result is:

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Does anyone have any idea of how to get this to just WORK ??

Appreciate your answers..

Answer 1

setDateStyle: overrides the custom format string set with setDateFormat:.

Answer 2

See Apple's Date Formatting docs.

I haven't tested it, but try

 [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MM/DD/yy"]; 

Answer 3

Besides that you should call -setDateStyle: first as per Nikolai answer, your formatting string doesn't match your example, which would be produced by e.g. the following:

[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"M/d/yy h:mm a"];

See the Unicode date format patterns for more details.