Have troubles with NSDateFormatter while parsing

Question

Here is the date sample: Wed, 13 May 2015 16:10:00 CEST

My formatter aint working

@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss vvvv"

What should i change?

UPD: full code

NSString* formattedDayWithString(NSString* date){
NSDateFormatter *inputFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
NSString *localeId = [locale displayNameForKey:NSLocaleIdentifier
                                         value:[locale localeIdentifier]];

SLog(@"%@ date:%@", localeId, date);
[inputFormatter setLocale: locale];
[inputFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss vvvv"];
NSDate *formattedDate = [inputFormatter dateFromString: date];
NSDateFormatter *outputFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[outputFormatter setDateFormat:@"d'.' MMMM yyyy"];

NSString* dateStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat: @"%@",[outputFormatter stringFromDate:formattedDate]];
return dateStr;

}

Show actual code in your question. And indicate what locale you are in. — rmaddy, May 15 '15 at 18:09
Study up on [time zone names](http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-31/tr35-dates.html#Using_Time_Zone_Names) (and have fun!) — Hot Licks, May 15 '15 at 18:18
What locale are you in? BTW - it's pointless to set the formatter's locale to the current locale since that is the default. — rmaddy, May 15 '15 at 18:27
And what happens when you run the code? What do you get for each variable? — rmaddy, May 15 '15 at 18:27
Yes, the locale is important because the date string is in English. If your locale was for some other language, that would be a problem. — rmaddy, May 15 '15 at 23:04

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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"CEST" is a "short specific non-location format" and the corresponding date field symbol is "z", not "v":

[inputFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"];

In addition, you might have to set the date formatter locale explicitly to "en_GB" as explained in Nsdateformatter + Timezone issue.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered May 15 '15 at 18:47

Martin R

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@Leonid: It worked for me. Have you set the locale to en_GB as well? – Martin R May 15 '15 at 19:11

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