How to read this json date "Date(1378357240047+0530)" to show it in a formatted way in ios

Question

I have tried doing this

NSString*
    dateAsString = @"/Date(1353720343336+0000)/";
    dateAsString = [dateAsString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/Date("
                                                           withString:@""];
    dateAsString = [dateAsString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"+0000)/"
                                                           withString:@""];

unsigned long long milliseconds = [dateAsString longLongValue];
NSTimeInterval interval = milliseconds/1000;
NSDate* date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:interval];

But its not working.

There's no such thing as a "JSON date." That string has nothing to do with JSON. — Matt Ball, Sep 05 '13 at 05:12
the date is in that format i need to change it in dd-mm-yyyy — user3783213, Sep 05 '13 at 05:15
This would be a good one [Parsing JSON Date](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6065278/767730) — Anupdas, Sep 05 '13 at 05:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '13 at 05:45

You should use a NSDateFormatter to parse from string to date, since the string date comes in a very particular format you must give a date formar, specified using ISO characters codification. Check this tutorial and documentation .
Formatting it correctly you get an NSDate object and creating another date formatter you can specify a more readable format.

How to read this json date "Date(1378357240047+0530)" to show it in a formatted way in ios

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