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copied!<p>I am always getting a null from the date formatter. I tried examples in all the other questions and didn't help.</p> <pre><code> NSLog(@"Date is %@", summaryItem.SubmittedDate); NSLog(@"Formatted Date is %@", [df stringFromDate: summaryItem.SubmittedDate ]); BOOL isDate = [summaryItem.SubmittedDate isKindOfClass: [NSDate class]]; NSLog(@"Date %@ a date.", isDate ? @"is" : @"is not"); </code></pre> <p>Looking at the definition of SubmittedDate you have</p> <pre><code>@property (nonatomic, retain) NSDate *SubmittedDate; </code></pre> <p>I am initializing the Date Fomatter as so</p> <pre><code>- (void) initDateFormatter { if( df == nil ) { df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [df setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"]; [df setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle]; } } </code></pre> <ol> <li>Output to Log: <ul> <li>2012-11-21 10:00:41.650 Mobile_v2[4093:f803] Date is 11/21/2012 10:00:41 AM</li> <li>2012-11-21 10:00:41.651 Mobile_v2[4093:f803] Formatted Date is (null)</li> <li>2012-11-21 10:00:41.681 Mobile_v2[4093:f803] Date is not a date.</li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>Can anyone see what's wrong? Is my date format incorrect?</p> <p>Code in my SBJson class</p> <pre><code>NSString *newDate = (NSString *)[receivedObjects objectForKey:@"SubmittedDate"]; NSDate *submittedDate = [df dateFromString:newDate]; //(NSDate *) if ((NSNull *) submittedDate == [NSNull null]) { self.SubmittedDate = nil; } else { self.SubmittedDate = submittedDate; } </code></pre> <p>Actual value is "11/21/2012 10:47:54 AM"</p>

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