Do either or both of these date pointers requires a [release] when I'm done with them. How would i know this? I'm unsure since I'm not doing init explicitly. NSDate *date = [NSDate date]; NSDate *date = [dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:100000000]; ...
I have three dates: (1) previousDate (2) currentDate (3) nextDate, I want to check whether currentDate is later then previous date and earlier than nextDate. How do I do that? ...
If I use the following code: NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm"]; NSDate *myDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2010-01-28T15:22:23.863"]; NSLog(@"%@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:myDate]); It is successfully converted to a Date object, however, I...
I'm trying to implement a method that will increment an NSDate instance variable by one month. I'm having memory management problems with this. (I'm using MallocScribble and NSZombieEnabled, and getting the message: -[CFDate copy]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x3d9dfa0) My question comes down to: what's the best way to incremen...
Hello, I am working on an application in which i save Current Date in database but when my app runs in Arabic language the current date format is changed into Arabic.I mean the date format should be like this 09/02/2010 but the digits are converted to Arabic digits.So how do i convert them back to english digits even if my app running in...
I am trying to force a user to select a date in the future with a date picker. I obviously used the compare: method, however, when I do the following code, even if it's the same date as [NSDate date], it tells the executes the if statement. Here is my code: if ([datePicker.date compare:[NSDate date]] == NSOrderedAscending) // If the...
This might be simple. I have searched, not found yet. How do I convert the NSString @"20100216190205" to an NSString of format @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss". ie: @"2010-02-16 19:02:05" EDIT: I wanted to avoid using the NSDateFormatter to be more generic, for other situations. ...
hi. i need to get the actual year, only the year but when i search for the result, i get always 0001. why is it? with the component i can get the day and the month. ...
Next to a label showing the value of a slider i want to show the date that corresponds to a start date + the number of days in slider value units. When i move the slider the app crashes in the Simulator. As far as i could find out that happens when i try to create a new NSDate field and my startDate object being "out of scope". Reading...
I am trying to do some basic operations with Dates on the iPhone. I want to take a string like "2010-02-19" and turn it into a string like "Friday, Feb 19." The strings I will be receiving will always be in 2010-02-19. Right now, I am running the following code that works, but it produces a warning that says "NSDate may not respond to...
I'd like to make a countdown to the next full hour. It's pretty easy to countdown to a specific time, like: NSDate *midnight = [NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString:@"midnight tomorrow"]; how do I define an NSDate for "the beginning of every hour"? Thanks! EDIT: This is what I have currently. Having trouble integrating the solution...
hi, it is possible to convert in iphone sdk (obj-c) a string to nsdate. thank you ...
Is there a good+easy way to convert an Oracle Timestamp to an NSDate object on the iPhone? I have asked my customer to give me a DB with timestamps as Unix Timestamp (doubles with 0 = start of 1970) but it seems to be a problem for them. Thanks. Note: You can easily convert a Unix Timestamp to an NSDate with [NSDate dateWithTimeInter...
I have an NSDate and a duration. I need to get the time after the duration... Given: NSDate is 2010-02-24 12:30:00 -1000 duration is 3600 secs I need to get 2010-02-24 13:30:00 -1000 Actually I am looking for the time, but I think I know how to do that if I can get the NSDate object reflecting the new time. I thought dateWithTime...
How to check if an NSDate belongs to today? I used to check it using first 10 characters from [aDate description]. [[aDate description] substringToIndex:10] returns string like "YYYY-MM-DD" so I compared the string with the string returned by [[[NSDate date] description] substringToIndex:10]. Is there more fast and/or neat way to check...
I have to sort objects based on NSDates. What are the options for sorting by NSDate? ...
I've read the DateFormatting guide and I'm still not able to get a working formatter. NSString *string = @"0901Z 12/17/09"; //This is a sample date. The Z stands for GMT timezone //The 0901 is 09h 01m on a 24 hour clock not 12. //As long as I can get the hours/min & date from the string I can deal with the time zone later NSDateForma...
In my app I DO NOT want to use the local time on the phone. I want to get the current time in GMT. To do this I have a date formatter with time zone set to GMT. I then do the following to get back the current time: NSString *dateOne = [df stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]; NSDate *date1 = [df dateFromString:dateOne]; My app gets an EXC_BA...
Hi, I store some dates in my NSMutableArray, I want to retrieve them and change the format. For the moment I do this: NSDate *myDate = [self.dates objectAtIndex:0]; NSLog(@"myDate:%@", myDate); // 2010-03-02 NSDateFormatter *formatDate = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [formatDate setDateFormat:@"MMMM d YYYY"]; NSString *newDate = [f...
I have an NSString that might contain 5-10 different style dates and times. I need to convert all of them into NSDates. Does dateWithNaturalLanguageString no longer exist in iPhone SDK 3.1.3? I do NOT need to convert things like @"last Wednesday at 1 pm". I need to convert things like: @"01-Feb-2010" @"Feb 1, 2010" @"February 1, 2010"...