How to Convert a particular NSDate to UNIX time stamp in ios

Question

I want to convert my date Object to Unix time stamp.

  // "**strSellTime**"  has  the string of my date

 NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter=[NSDateFormatter new];

 [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE MMM yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a"];

 NSDate *date=[dateFormatter dateFromString:strSellTime];

and wants to convert this date to UNIX time stamp like (1395382740) in this format.

Possible duplicate of [How to convert NSDate into unix timestamp iphone sdk?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2997062/how-to-convert-nsdate-into-unix-timestamp-iphone-sdk) — Suragch, Jan 12 '17 at 02:11

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 06:47

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Just use [(NSDate*)date timeIntervalSince1970]

answered Mar 21 '14 at 06:47

ThomasHaz

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '14 at 06:51

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time_t unixTime = (time_t) [date timeIntervalSince1970];

was able to solve it by this

answered Mar 21 '14 at 06:51

Balu

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How to Convert a particular NSDate to UNIX time stamp in ios

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