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Here's my server time:

2014-08-20 16:23:00.0

Now I would like to format the date my server gives me with the date only, and not the time. For example: Month/date/year Could someone explain what I am doing wrong?

Here's what I have tried: 

 NSDate * date = [[NSDate alloc] init];

    NSDateFormatter * formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];

    [formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-dd-MM HH:mm:ss"];

   NSString * dateForShow = //2014-08-20 16:23:00.0
    //Date returns nil
    date = [formatter dateFromString:dateForShow];

    [formatter setDateFormat:@"MM-dd-yyyy"];


    NSString * result = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
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Look at the actual date you have. Look at the date format string. How do they differ?? Then look at unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-31/…;. How should the date format string be modified to look more like the actual date? –  Hot Licks 2 hours ago
    
Better link to the ICU date formatting document: ICU Formatting Dates and Times –  Zaph 1 hour ago

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Try this for your third line:

[formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S"];

Reference: Link

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Why didn't you reference the spec instead? –  Hot Licks 1 hour ago
    
I still get a nil response. –  wayon 1 hour ago
    
wayon, please see my edited answer. We both had month and day mixed up. @HotLicks, what do you mean? –  rebello95 1 hour ago
    
Rather than point at another SO issue, point at the spec, which every serious app programmer should have bookmarked (applies to Android as well). –  Hot Licks 1 hour ago
    
You're right, I've updated my answer. Funny thing is I had that page bookmarked but for some reason didn't think to reference it. Thanks for the correction. –  rebello95 1 hour ago
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Use this format @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S"

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First, if you are getting date from String, you have the same date format as your string format.

See my examples and better read the Date and Time Specs from Apple:

NSString *beginString = [currentFields objectForKey:@"pubDate"];

Here I am fetching date and time in following format: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:01:09 +0300

NSDateformatter format init

        dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [dateFormat setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_GB"]];
        [dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"Europe/Kiev"]];
        [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"];
        dateFromString = [dateFormat dateFromString:beginString];

        //NSLog(@"Begin string: %@", beginString);

Convert Date to string

        [dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];
        [dateFormat setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"ru_RU"]];
        [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"dd MMMM yyyy"];
        myStrDate = [dateFormat stringFromDate:dateFromString];
        [currentTitle setPubDate:myStrDate];

After converting in formatting my date will be:

31 July 2014

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