Conversion NSString to NSDate. 1 day is lost.

Question

NSString *dateString = @"20.10.2010";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.yyyy"];
[dateFormatter setLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];

NSLog(@"%@", [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString]);

My output is:

2010-10-19 22:00:00 GMT

Why is one day lost?

Answer 1

Probably because your locale specificies that you're in GMT +2.

That means the given date is interpreted as 2010-10-20 00:00 GMT+2, hence in GMT+0 that's 2010-10-19 22:00.

Answer 2

You not lost 1 day, but 2 hours. But the display is GMT. What do you want to do with your date ? See the reference to change the output formatter