On 8/11/09 6:39 PM, Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard said: >I am trying to format dates for display. So far I have been using this >formatter: > > NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] >autorelease]; > > [dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4]; > [dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle]; > [dateFormatter setTimeStyle:kCFDateFormatterMediumStyle]; > > >Now, I want to add leading zeros to days and month values. It seems >there is no way of teaching the above formatter to do so. It goes with >whatever format the user has set in System Preferences. > >Thus I am trying the below formatter: > > NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] >autorelease]; > > [dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4]; > [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd/mm/yy hh:MM:ss a"]; > >This works fine, except for the fact that I have now hardcoded the >fact that I display day/month/year rather than month/day/year. > >It would seem that NSLocale should know about the user's preferences. >Yet I can find no way to query it for date format.
So you want to use the user's preference and yet you don't. The choice of leading zeros or no is part of the user's choice. But if you must, you could get the user's format string and carefully alter it to add leading zeros. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
