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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Adapting Data for Display Formatting Dates with NSDateFormatter

Posted by Sungbae Park
Sungbae Park
9,389 Points

my current time is different to what it shows on the nslog and the computer clock?

Hi,

For some reason I'm seeing different time on the NSLog and the computer clock.

They both got the same date, minutes and seconds, but the hour is wrong. They must have different region selected...

How do I fix this?

1 Answer

Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,159 Points
Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,159 Points

If you have a object instantiated from the [NSTimeZone systemTimeZone], it will be cached by the application and will not reflect the current device's zone until you clear it using [NSTimeZone resetSystemTimeZone].

Use [NSTimeZone localTimeZone] instead of [NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone] if you want your timezone variable to reflect any updates to the application's timezone.

NSTimeZone *timeZone = [NSTimeZone localTimeZone];

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Sungbae Park
Sungbae Park
9,389 Points

Cheers Nathan!