Date is getting changed while converting to NSDate from NSString.

Question

Hi all,

I am converting NSString to NSDate with help of NSDateFormatter. Now code works fine here in all OS with device & simulator but it is creating different Output at UK, USA region. Here is the code that I am using.

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];

NSString *dateString=[NSString stringWithString:@"2010-09-05 04:00:00"];

NSDate *dateObj = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];

Actual date is : 2010-09-05 04:00:00

Output at USA : 2010-09-04 21:00:00 -0700

It seems the problem is at TimeZone/Locale somewhere but don't know the solution. I also tried :

[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"GMT"]];

but couldn't get out of the issue.

Is there any simple way to get NSDate from NSString as the string actually represents without getting affected by TimeZone. I just want to get NSDate as it appears in NSString with No change in date & time. Is there any way? Thanks in advance.