Parsing time string into NSDate returns nil

Question

I have time portion as a string and I want to parse it into date, as I have concern about the time portion of date. But when I parse it with the given format, result is nil. How should I parse my Time String?

Time String: 23:59

Method:

+(NSDate*)getDateFromStringProfile:(NSString*)strDate
{
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    NSTimeZone *timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"HH:mm"];
    [dateFormat setTimeZone:timeZone];


    NSDate *result =[dateFormat dateFromString:strDate];
    return result;
}

Result: nil

Try setting the locale with `NSLocale` for the `NSDataFormatter`. — Zane Helton, Apr 02 '15 at 20:48
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6613110/what-is-the-best-way-to-deal-with-the-nsdateformatter-locale-feature — Hot Licks, Apr 03 '15 at 01:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '15 at 20:57

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Adding the locale worked for me. I added the following locale.

[dateFormat setLocale: [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]];

And I got a NSDate object instead of nil. Thanks for comment @ZaneHelton

answered Apr 02 '15 at 20:57

Muhammad Nabeel Arif

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You should use en_US_POSIX. – rmaddy Apr 02 '15 at 21:28

Parsing time string into NSDate returns nil

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