How to convert facebook post/message time to normal NSDate

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If I do requestForGrpahPath:@"me/inbox" with read_mailbox permission then I get this:

"data": [
          {
            "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
            "from": {
              "name": "XXXXXXXXXXXX",
              "id": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
            },
            "message": "yeup!",
            "created_time": "2012-12-03T10:28:21+0000"   // how to convert this time to normal NSdate
          },

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '12 at 04:21

Date format in your case is,

NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"];
NSDate* date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];

You can check the other links I have mentioned in comments for more details.

How to convert facebook post/message time to normal NSDate

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