convert string data " 03:12:00 May 06, 2014 MDT" into nsdate " 03-05-2014 " in ios

Question

I am having Date like "payment_date" = "03:12:00 May 06, 2014 MDT";.
But i want to convert this data into NSDate like "06-05-2014"

Please help me, don't know to handle it..

i got the answer from Converting NSString to NSDate (and back again)

 __block NSDate *detectedDate;

//Detect.
NSDataDetector *detector = [NSDataDetector dataDetectorWithTypes:NSTextCheckingAllTypes error:nil];
[detector enumerateMatchesInString:t_date
                           options:kNilOptions
                             range:NSMakeRange(0, [t_date length])
                        usingBlock:^(NSTextCheckingResult *result, NSMatchingFlags flags, BOOL *stop)
{ detectedDate = result.date;

    NSDate *d=result.date;

}


 ];

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3917250/converting-nsstring-to-nsdate-and-back-again — Natarajan, May 09 '14 at 12:05
@user3620252:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10570593/how-to-convert-the-date-string-with-time-zone-to-nsdate — , May 09 '14 at 12:06
Make sure you read and understand the documentation for NSDate. There are tons and tons of questions here where misunderstanding of NSDate makes people think they got wrong results when the result is actually correct. — gnasher729, May 09 '14 at 12:21
@gnasher729: Or the result is wrong and they think it is correct :-) — Martin R, May 09 '14 at 12:27
possible duplicate of [How to convert string to date in objective-c?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4380381/how-to-convert-string-to-date-in-objective-c) — Hot Licks, May 09 '14 at 12:34

DipakSonara · Answer 1 · 2014-05-12T06:53:31.300

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EDITS

NSString *str = @"03:12:00 October 06, 2014 MDT";
NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[df setLocale:[NSLocale localeWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"]];
[df setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterLongStyle];

str = [str substringFromIndex:9];
NSDate *date = [df dateFromString:[str substringToIndex:[str length] -3]];
[df setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-YYYY"];
NSLog(@"%@",[df stringFromDate:date]);

edited May 12 '14 at 06:53

answered May 09 '14 at 12:18

DipakSonara

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This code ignores the given timezone "MDT". And using a fixed range (9, 13) substring is not the best idea. What if the month has more than three letters? – Martin R May 09 '14 at 12:26
@MartinR : Actually i gave the solution according to the question's requirement. – DipakSonara May 09 '14 at 12:28
Well, it converts the string "03:12:00 May 06, 2014 MDT", but it fails for "03:12:00 October 06, 2014 MDT" ... – Martin R May 09 '14 at 12:29
@MartinR Sir you are absolutely right. my application crashes when i am having date from "april" or another months... – Darshan_Ethan May 09 '14 at 12:39
@MartinR & Darshan_Ethan : You can check my code now. Happy codding. :) – DipakSonara May 12 '14 at 06:55

convert string data " 03:12:00 May 06, 2014 MDT" into nsdate " 03-05-2014 " in ios

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