Wrong time format ios

Question

I have a time picker which displays time in 12 Hour format. Internally i am converting it to 24 Hour format. The problem is, if the time taken is 10:24, it displays 10:01. i.e 'now' will have 10:24 and 'self.currentTime' will have 10:01. What am i doing wrong.

NSDate *now = [timePicker date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"HH:MM:SS";
self.currentTime = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:now];
NSLog(@"The Current Time is %@",self.currentTime);

Thank you.

Please read the documentation about the proper format specifiers. — rmaddy, Jan 07 '14 at 05:08
Why is there a time difference of 13 minutes between the two variables? lol weird — Pavan, Jan 07 '14 at 05:10
@Pavan You mean 23 minutes? See the answer for the reason. The `01` is the month, not the minutes. — rmaddy, Jan 07 '14 at 05:17

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '14 at 05:07

MM is "month of year", not "minute". You also want "s" (for seconds) rather than "S" (for fractions of a second).

I suspect you want a format of HH:mm:ss.

See the "date formatters" documentation for more inforamtion - in particular, UTS 35, tr35-25 for the most recent version of iOS.

Wrong time format ios

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