Convert NSDate to NSString with NSDateFormatter with TimeZone without GMT Time Modifier

Question

I'm initializing my NSDateFormatter thusly:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[dateFormatter setLocale:[[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"] autorelease]];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];
NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];

dateString is now:

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:58:42 GMT+00:00

I want to get rid of the "+00:00"

I'm guessing from http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html#Time_Zone_Fallback that I might have a localization issue. I'm working around this right now by removing the "+00:00" manually, but that isn't ideal.

Answer 1

Remove the trailing 'z' character from the format string if you don't want to display the time zone.

EDIT

On the other hand, if you just want to display the timezone name, just make the 'z' uppercase.