Set and get Date in NSString format or NSDate format with different date format with my bellow method

You can get date with string return type and also set date format in which you want to get date For Ex: dd-MMM-yyyy (i.e. 05-Mar-2014)

-(NSString *)changeDateFormat:(NSString*)stringDate dateFormat:(NSString*)dateFormat getwithFormat:(NSString *)getwithFormat{

    

    

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:dateFormat];

    

    NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:stringDate];

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:getwithFormat];

    

    NSString *convertedString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];

    NSLog(@"Converted String : %@",convertedString);

    return convertedString;

}

NSString  *stringVar  = [self changeDateFormat:yourDateString dateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd" getwithFormat:@"dd MMM yyyy"];// set your date string and its date format and after set your required new date format

You can get date with NSDate return type and also set date format in which you want to get date For Ex: dd-MMM-yyyy (i.e. 05-Mar-2014) same like above but here you get return date in NSDate.

-(NSDate *)convertStringToDate:(NSString *)date dateFormat:(NSString *)dateFormat getWithFormat:(NSString *)getWithFormat {

    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

    NSDate *nowDate = [[NSDate alloc] init];

    [formatter setDateFormat:dateFormat];// set format here which format in string date

    date = [date stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"+0000" withString:@""];

    nowDate = [formatter dateFromString:date];

    [formatter setDateFormat:getWithFormat];

    

    NSString *convertedString = [formatter stringFromDate:nowDate];

    nowDate = [formatter dateFromString:convertedString];

    // NSLog(@"date============================>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> : %@", nowDate);

    return nowDate;

}