iOS NSDateFormatter returns wrong date

Question

dbVoiceDate is wrong why?

I tried a lot!

NSDateFormatter *formatterVoice = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatterVoice.dateFormat = @"dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss";
dbVoiceDate = [formatterVoice dateFromString:dbDateStr];

Getting response:

Printing description of dbDateStr:

03-Oct-2016 10:43:59

Printing description of self->dbVoiceDate:

2016-10-03 05:02:16 +0000

thanks in advance.

Timezone is the issue, see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16621330/nsdateformatter-not-working-to-set-settimezone — Anbu.Karthik, Oct 03 '16 at 05:23
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8442706/nsdateformatter-and-time-zone-issue — Anbu.Karthik, Oct 03 '16 at 05:23
What kind of date you wont tell me .. then i give you perfect answer . — Himanshu Moradiya, Oct 03 '16 at 05:54
TimeZone issue, no? The small differences on the seconds part is due to something else, and it seems that your date may need `HH` instead of `hh` for the hours, because it doesn't have AM or PM explicitly written.$ — Larme, Oct 13 '16 at 13:12
There's a gazillion other posts telling you the you need to lear about time zones. — gnasher729, Oct 18 '16 at 09:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '16 at 05:27

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format it like this

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];

//then do your coding.

answered Oct 03 '16 at 05:27

caldera.sac

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 13:08

Try this:-

NSString *dateString = @"Thu Oct 3 10:34:58 +0000 2016";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss Z yyyy"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
NSLog(@"%@", date);
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss"];
NSString *finalDateStr = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(@"%@", finalDateStr);

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 25 '16 at 07:34

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Try this following code:

+(NSString*)getDateWithMonthSpelling:(NSString*)dateStr
{
    NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"dd/MM/yyyy";
    NSDate *yourDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateStr];
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"dd MMM yyyy";
    NSString*myDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:yourDate];
    return myDate;
}

edited Nov 25 '16 at 07:34

Martijn Pieters

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answered Oct 18 '16 at 09:20

G.Anushiya

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '18 at 10:12

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You need to check the timezone. If it is in GMT set timezone to GMT, like this:

[youDateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"]];

Else you can use your local timezone like this:

[youDateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]];

edited Apr 13 '18 at 10:12

halfer

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answered Oct 03 '16 at 05:39

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iOS NSDateFormatter returns wrong date

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