Re: RFC822 date-string to NSDate

FROM : Andy Lee
DATE : Mon Jun 30 20:50:37 2008

I'm not too familiar with NSDateFormatter.  Do you need to call -
setDateFormat:?

--Andy

On Jun 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Steve Byan wrote:

> I'm having trouble grokking NSDateFormatter on OS X 10.4. Does it 
> support RFC822-style dates? I'm parsing an XML document; here's the 
> pertinent code snippet:
>
>        NSLog(@"observation_time_rfc822 element end");
>        NSDateFormatter * dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] 
> init];
>        [dateFormatter 
> setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
>        myObservationTime = [dateFormatter 
> dateFromString:myCurrentStringValue];
>        NSLog(@"myObservationTime %@", myObservationTime);
>        myObservationTimeRFC822 = [[NSString alloc] 
> initWithString:myCurrentStringValue];
>
> The myObservationTimeRFC822 string is "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:56:00 
> -0400 EDT", but NSLog(@"myObservationTime %@", myObservationTime) 
> prints "myObservationTime 1969-12-31 19:00:00 -0500".
>
> Best regards,
> -Steve
>
> --
> Steve Byan <<email_removed>>
> Littleton, MA 01460
>
>
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