Objective C / iPhone: How do I extract the actual unicode date format strings for the current region?

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
NSString *dateFormat = [df dateFormat];
NSLog(@"Date format: %@", dateFormat);
[df release];

Just tested on OS X but this should also work in iOS.