When working on programs that manipulate Dates sometimes those days need to be store & printed in particular format. iOS has given NSDate for date and time related data handling and NSDateFormatter can be used to give a date of NSDate object a visual form.
Code
Current Date and Time is obtained by init method of NSDate.
NSDate *date = [[NSDate alloc] init];
Create a NSDateFormatter for set the date format that is needed to print and get a NSString object from the date.
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
Use setDateFormat of NSDateFormatter to get a date format that is needed to display. This method get the required date format by using NSString parameter and returns nothing. The method has been called on the object dateFormatter.
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss"];
Method signature for setDateFormat
- (void)setDateFormat:(NSString *)string
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
Invoke stringFromDate on dateFormatter object to get the the date value of NSDate object in specified date format. This method consumes previously created date object and assign a NSString represent of the date on date object to dateString.
Method signature for stringFromDate
- (NSString *)stringFromDate:(NSDate *)date
Print the dateString using NSLog();
NSLog(@"The Date: %@", dateString);
Complete Code
NSDate *date = [[NSDate alloc] init];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
NSLog(@"The Date: %@", dateString);
