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iOS

Posted by Husnain Javed
Husnain Javed
1,570 Points

Help with date formatting in iOS

Please help me, i don't have any idea how to do this code challenge.

Question:

Create a date format using the given 'dateFormatter' variable to display any date with the format of '02/29/2012'. Don't worry about using it for now, just set up the formatter.

1 Answer

Jerome Garot
Jerome Garot
2,886 Points
Jerome Garot
Jerome Garot
2,886 Points

What's the problem? (Try and explain what you're problem is, otherwise no one can help you.)

The problem I was having on that one was that I was trying to set up the formatter again, but it was already initialized on the 2nd line.

Jerome

Husnain Javed
Husnain Javed
1,570 Points

Can I have the code please? Because I tried all the code lines but it isn't accepting them.

Jerome Garot
Jerome Garot
2,886 Points

Why don't you post the thing you think it should be and we can break it down so you learn something from it ;)

Husnain Javed
Husnain Javed
1,570 Points

This is my code:

NSTimeInterval secondsPerDay = 60 * 60 * 24; NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; // Add your code below

NSDate *today = [NSDate date]; NSTimeInterval secondsPerTenDays = 60 * 60 * 24 * 10; NSDate *futureDate = [[NSDate alloc] init]; futureDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:secondsPerTenDays];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/DD/YYYY"];

// Thanks

Husnain Javed
Husnain Javed
1,570 Points

Thank you very much for your time dedicated to my problem, but I resolved it by replacing DD with dd.

Fix:

DD --> dd

Jerome Garot
Jerome Garot
2,886 Points

Exactly what I was gonna post.

I also used small y's myself:

I also just used secondsPerDay * 10 for the 10 days thing.