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Posted by John Carr
John Carr
Courses Plus Student 1,984 Points

Formatting Dates with NSDateFormatter

This is my code, in tableView.m i have:
cell.detailTextLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ - %@", blogPost.author, [blogPost formattedDate]]; return cell;

I am getting null for my dates?

blogPost.m code below. -(NSString *) formattedDate; { NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"]; NSDate *tempDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:self.date];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EE MMM, dd"];
return [dateFormatter stringFromDate:tempDate];

}

2 Answers

Patrick Donahue
Patrick Donahue
9,523 Points
Patrick Donahue
Patrick Donahue
9,523 Points 
 -(NSString *) formattedDate; { NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter =

Remove the semi colon after formatted date.

John Carr
PLUS
John Carr
Courses Plus Student 1,984 Points
John Carr
John Carr
Courses Plus Student 1,984 Points

solved it was NSDictionary i did not have - bp.date = [blogPostDictionary objectForKey:@"date"]; Thats why i was getting null. Sorry about the way the code pasted in above.