How to parse date with time in Objective C

Question

I have dates in format e.g.

2014-12-09T11:10:23.0000000-08:00

How To parse this date & get 2014-12-09T11:10:23.

Please Help I have tried with many date formatters in setDateFormat: method.

So many 0's.... it looks like multiple `SSSSSSS` are there. create new formatter without that may `S` and one `Z` and you will get it in string. — Anoop Vaidya, Dec 10 '14 at 13:32
Is there a reason just taking the first 19 characters won't work? — Marcus Adams, Dec 10 '14 at 13:40
@MarcusAdams: That wouldn't be good thing, as at times it may be 18 characters... — Anoop Vaidya, Dec 10 '14 at 13:41
Did you try consulting [THE DOCUMENTATION](http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-31/tr35-dates.html#Date_Format_Patterns)?? — Hot Licks, Dec 10 '14 at 13:45
@MarcusAdams: may be he get month and date without 0-prefix. — Anoop Vaidya, Dec 10 '14 at 13:49
@AnoopVaidya, that's a rather standard format. Dates will be zero padded. Could convert, but since just throwing away fractional seconds and time zone designator and the end result is a string, just taking first 19 characters should work fine. — Marcus Adams, Dec 10 '14 at 13:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '14 at 13:49

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setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSSZZZZZ"

(It's all in the spec if you bother to look.)

answered Dec 10 '14 at 13:49

Hot Licks

so after this he again need to use another formatter to convert it to his required format, isn't it? – Anoop Vaidya Dec 10 '14 at 13:50
@AnoopVaidya - Yes, and that's in the spec too. – Hot Licks Dec 10 '14 at 13:51

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