NSDateFormatter - Adding a Year?

Question

I have the following code which is simply getting the current date and converting it to the format YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz

        NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"];
        NSTimeZone *currentTimeZone = [NSTimeZone localTimeZone];
        [dateFormatter setTimeZone:currentTimeZone];

        NSString *time = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

        NSLog(@"TIME IS %@", time);

With this, I'm getting the following log output:

2014-12-30 00:20:38.987 MYAPPNAME[953:229825] TIME IS 2015-12-30 00:20:38 CST

Can someone tell me why the output is showing as 2015, rather than 2014 as it should be?

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '14 at 06:38

yyyy specifies the calendar year, whereas YYYY specifies the year (of “Week of Year”)

you must change your dateformatter style from

[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"];

to

[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"];

for your reference, check this apple documentation

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 30 '14 at 06:37

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change your date formate

[dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"];

edited Dec 30 '14 at 06:37

Anil Varghese

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answered Dec 30 '14 at 06:36

karthikeyan

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 30 '14 at 06:39

Try this:

        NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [dateFormatter setDateFormat: @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"];
        NSTimeZone *currentTimeZone = [NSTimeZone localTimeZone];
        [dateFormatter setTimeZone:currentTimeZone];

        NSString *time = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

        NSLog(@"TIME IS %@", time);

For more details, about NSDateFormatter, read this:

http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/working-with-date-and-time

NSDateFormatter - Adding a Year?

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