NSString to NSDate

[shad1236]

I got a string that contains the current date by using this :

NSString *date = [[NSDate date] description];

At a different point I am want to retrieve the date from this string and I use the following code

[NSDateFormatter setDefaultFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
	NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
	//[NSDateFormatter setDefaultFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehaviorDefault];
	[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ±HHMM"];

	NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
	dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:<NSString containing date>];

I am getting 'dateFromString' as nil 0x0. What I am doing wrong?

[BrianSlick]

What does the string look like before you do that?

[shad1236]

The string was in this format:

NSString *dateString = @"2009-08-30 07:47:52 -400";

[BrianSlick]

I changed it to this:

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"];

and chopped the appropriate bit off the string, and it worked just fine. From a little research, it seems that if the format is not correct, the return from the dateFromString method is nil. So it seems that your format is not correct.

[shad1236]

i used this one

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

Thanks BrianSlick for your help