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    copied!<p>The input string is '20100908041312'</p> <p>the format is year,month,day,Hours,minutes,seconds,time zone</p> <p>and I have ben trying to convert it to an NSDate with this: <code>@"yyyyMMddHHmmsszz"</code> </p> <p>But NSDate is nil, anyone see what I'm doing wrong?</p> <pre><code>-(NSDate*)convertPDFDateStringAsDate:(NSString*) _string{ //20100908041312 //year month day Hours minutes seconds and time zone NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMddHHmmsszz"]; NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:_string]; //date is nil... [dateFormat release]; return date; } </code></pre> <p>EDIT: its the time zone breaking it</p> <p>EDIT2: <code>@"yyyyMMddHHmmssTZD"</code> stops it returning nil, but dosnt pick the time zone correctly</p> <p>EDIT3: This was the code I Used in the end...i found that the format changes from PDF to PDF so the code deals with the variations that i Found, in some cases this <strong>wont</strong> extract the Time Zone Properly.</p> <pre><code>-(NSDate*)convertPDFDateStringAsDate:(NSString*) _string{ NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; NSString * formatCheck = [_string substringToIndex:2]; if(![formatCheck isEqualToString:@"D:"]) { NSLog(@"ERROR: Date String wasnt in expected format"); return nil;//return [NSDate date]; } NSString * extract = [_string substringFromIndex:2]; //NSLog(@"DATESTRING:'%@'",extract);NSLog(@"DATELENGTH:%i",[extract length]); if([extract length]&gt;14) { [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMddHHmmssTZD"]; } else { [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMddHHmmss"]; } NSDate * date = [dateFormat dateFromString:extract]; [dateFormat release]; return date ; } </code></pre>
 

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