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Re: NSDateFormatter help

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In article <slrninevb7.2c09.jim@wotan.magrathea.local>,
 Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> I've got an NSString that contains a date/time. An actual example of
> this is:
> 
> 1230 UT 09 Mar 2011
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get this into an NSDate object, and I *thought* that the
> formatter should be: "HHmm z dd MMM yyyy" but this always returns a bad
> date. I've tried various z's (up to four) and I've tried using a few
> other things but something isn't right.
> 
> What *should* the formatter be?

I suspect it's failing on the time zone. I suggest trying "v" for that 
instead of "z", which looks more likely to match. Or, if all of the 
times are UTC, you could include a literal "UT" in the format string and 
then treat the result as UTC.

-- 
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/

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NSDateFormatter help Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com> - 2011-03-09 13:15 +0000
  Re: NSDateFormatter help Tom Harrington <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> - 2011-03-09 09:41 -0700
    Re: NSDateFormatter help Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com> - 2011-03-09 16:48 +0000

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