On 15 May 2014, at 02:00, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote:
> > On May 14, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Jonathan Mitchell wrote: > >> Is there a way to obtain an NSDate object from a casually entered user >> string, say: 1 1 2015 or 25 jul 15? >> >> I have looked at the various NSDateFormatter and NSDate API and cannot spot >> what I am after. > > You might try NSDataDetector with type NSTextCheckingTypeDate. I did just that, and are a bit puzzled. 1. NSDataDetector recognises all date formats I encountered, which is rather good. 2. NSDataDetector ignores fractions of a second: e.g. "2014-05-14 11:33:53.126" gets converted to: "2014-05-14 11:33:53 +0700", which in my case is not really a problem. 3. But sometimes the date of NSDataDetector is 12h ahead (again ignoring fractions of a second): "2014-05-15 07:52:18.658" → "2014-05-15 19:52:18 +0700" "2014-05-14 05:59:46.490 +0700" → "2014-05-14 17:59:46.490 +0700" But not always - these work ok: "2014-05-15 08:22:48.135" "2014-05-15 09:15:35 +0700" Also, all times after about 13:00 are correct. This arbitrary advancement of 12h is obviously NOT acceptable. What am I doing wrong? Gerriet. _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
