Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSDateFormatter — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class is used to convert NSDate values into a human-readable date and time string, as well as to convert textual date and time representations into NSDate objects. NSDateFormatter is quite flexible in terms of the variety of supported textual representations, including such standards as 1/1/02, January 1, 2002, and natural language expressions such as “Today” or “Tomorrow”. NSDateFormatter is used primarily by NSTextFieldCell instances to present date information to the user in an appropriate format.

@interface NSDateFormatter : NSFormatter

// Initializers

- (id)initWithDateFormat:(NSString *)format allowNaturalLanguage:(BOOL)flag;

// Instance Methods

- (BOOL)allowsNaturalLanguage;

- (NSString *)dateFormat;