DateFormatter keep returning null

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I have a date i take from twitter :

  NSString *date=[twt objectForKey:@"created_at"];
  NSLog(@"%@",date);
  NSDateFormatter *df = [ [NSDateFormatter alloc] init]  ;
  [df setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"];
  NSDate *newdate = [df dateFromString:date];
  NSLog(@"new: %@",newdate); //null

the date is : Thu Jun 12 20:56:53 +0000 2014 and i get null on the new date . What am i missing ?

possible duplicate of [NSString to NSDate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1353081/nsstring-to-nsdate) — CrimsonChris, Jun 13 '14 at 14:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 14:13

The date formatting string you've shared sure does't look like it matches the date you're getting from Twitter. The docs for dateFromString state...

A date representation of string interpreted using the receiver’s current settings. If dateFromString: can not parse the string, returns nil.

Read up!

http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html#Date_Format_Patterns

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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the date formatter for that format (Thu Jun 12 20:56:53 +0000 2014) would be this:

"EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"

rather than this "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss".

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jun 13 '14 at 14:28

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"EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"