Localization in NSDateFormatter

Question

Hello I am trying to convert декабрь/12/1982 date into NSDate but it will return nil value. Following is my code.

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
 [formatter setLocale:[NSLocale localeWithLocaleIdentifier:@"ru_RU"]];
 [formatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"];

 NSDate *dateCreated = [formatter dateFromString:strSelectedDate];

My application has multi language support. Thanks in advance.

`MM` is for a 2-digit month number. Use `MMMM` for the month name. — rmaddy, Aug 12 '15 at 06:51
@rmaddy, Thanks for your reply but output which i need is 01/12/2015 so that's why i use MM/dd/yyyy format. — Diken Shah, Aug 12 '15 at 06:56
But your code is for converting the string to an `NSDate`. The format must match the string. If your then want to convert the `NSDate` to a new format, that's a 2nd step with a new format. — rmaddy, Aug 12 '15 at 07:00
Your "strSelectedDate" should be in the same format as "MM/dd/yyyy". — Ardra Thambi, Aug 12 '15 at 07:05

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 12 '15 at 08:47

this works:

NSString *temp = @"декабрь/12/1982";
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[formatter setLocale:[NSLocale localeWithLocaleIdentifier:@"ru_RU"]];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"LLLL/dd/yyyy"];
NSDate *dateCreated = [formatter dateFromString:temp];
NSLog(@"%@", dateCreated);

output is: 216:27582] 1982-12-11 23:00:00 +0000

Localization in NSDateFormatter

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