How do you eliminate the am/pm? There does not appear to be a built-in date 
formatter style that does that.

On Sep 7, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
> On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Dennis <li...@dbandel.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm getting stuck trying to format a variable quantity of elapsed time for 
>> the user's locale. The NSDateFormatter class seems to only provide formats 
>> for actual times (e.g. "1:30 AM"). What I need to do is turn 1 hour and 30 
>> minutes into "1:30" for my US English settings, and the appropriate string 
>> for other locales.
> 
> I think the best you can do is generate an NSDate that’s the given 
> elapsed-time past midnight of the current day, and then format it using a 
> formatter that doesn’t include any date or am/pm indicators.
> 
> —Jens


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