Get formatted date as NSDate [duplicate]

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Unexpected value from NSDate (2 answers)

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I've a NSDateFormatter set like this:

YYYY/MM/dd HH:mm:ss

I can convert it from NSDate to NSString and from NSString to NSDate. But what I want is to get the NSDate as I formatted it. I thought about converting it to NSString then convert back to NSDate but this way is just awful, I'm sure there is a simpler way, right?

Answer 1

You can't format an NSDate, it is an exact point in time. If you are converting an NSDate to a string, and back to a NSDate, they will be identical

Answer 2

A date is never formatted. The string representation and only the string representation of a date is formatted.

Unexpected value from NSDate

Answer 3

May be you want to write simple category to NSDate that will return right formatted string?

NSDate+formatted.h

@interface NSDate (formatted)

-(NSString)formatedString;

@end

NSDate+formatted.m

@implementation  NSDate (formatted)
-(NSString)formatedString
{
// your formatter code here 
}
@end