Current Date & Time in Objective C

In this tutorial , i will tell you about NSDate and NSDateFormatters .

NSDate is inbuilt Objective c function which is used to find current date and time .

NSDateFormatter is used to format the date and time .eg :- MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss.

TO FIND CURRENT DATE , ADD FOLLOWING CODE TO YOUR PROJECT :

	NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; // allocate and initialize NSDateFormatter
	[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"h:mm a MMM d, yyyy"]; // set the type of date and time format.
	NSString *date = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]; // take NSString which will contain the date & time
	// [NSDate date] is used to get the current date.
	NSLog(@"Current date is %@",date).

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Code is explained in comments.

Other date formats are as follows :

            Date Formats         Examples

M/d/y	23/7/1993
MM/dd/yy	23/07/93
MMM d, ''yy	Nov 4, '12
MMMM	November
E	Sun
EEEE	Sunday
'Week' w 'of 52'	Week 45 of 52
'Day' D 'of 365'	Day 309 of 365
QQQ	Q4
QQQQ	4th quarter
m 'minutes past' h	9 minutes past 8
h:mm a	8:09 PM
HH:mm:ss's'	20:09:00s
HH:mm:ss:SS	20:09:00:00
h:mm a zz	8:09 PM C
h:mm a zzzz	8:09 PM Central Standard Time
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z	2012-11-04 20:09:00 -0600

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