Can someone help me convert a dotNet statement to a objective-C statement?

Question

I am not a dotNet developer and was trying to read up some documentation on the following method:

signDate = Convert.ToDateTime("6/22/2011 8:35:21 PM");

What would be an equivalent function/method in objective C?

I think it is pretty clear that this code converts a string to a datetime type object, isn't it? — Felipe Sabino, Jun 23 '11 at 01:52
looks like a duplicate of this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/902950/iphone-convert-date-string-to-a-relative-time-stamp — blueberryfields, Jun 23 '11 at 01:53
@Felipe Yes that is pretty obvious. And a simple Google search shows that http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx however being a non .net developer, I do not know what a DateTime struct is in .net — milof, Jun 23 '11 at 01:56
actually, what you should have checked is the `Convert` class reference, as it is the class performing the conversion. It has a lot of examples on the date string formats and the resulting dates http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xhz1w05e.aspx ;) — Felipe Sabino, Jun 23 '11 at 02:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 23 '11 at 01:51

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I believe you should check out the NSDateFormatter Documentation. In particular, I believe you want the method dateFromString:

In addition, or for a quick overview, check out the Date Formatters Guide.

answered Jun 23 '11 at 01:51

PengOne

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '11 at 01:53

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I am also not a .NET developer, but it looks like you're looking for dateWithNaturalLanguageString:

NSDate *signDate = [NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString:@"6/22/2011 8:35:21 PM"];

answered Jun 23 '11 at 01:53

Josh Leitzel

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