NSDateFormatter format strings for Twitter and Facebook
Format strings for processing dates from facebook or twitter’s json api’s
//2010-09-12T22:21:18+0000 #define DF_FACEBOOK @"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZ" // Sun Sep 12 17:06:56 +0000 2010 #define DF_TWITTER @"EEE LLL dd HH:mm:ss ZZ yyyy"
Usage:
NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [df setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterFullStyle]; // important [df setDateFormat:DF_TWITTER]; NSDate *date = [df dateFromString:dateStringTwitter]; [df release];
Where DF_TWITTER would be DF_FACEBOOK, if you were processing facebook json instead of Twitter.