two type of parsing date on iPhone

Parse date information by NSCalendar, NSTimeZone, and NSDateComponents:

NSDate *now = [NSDate date]; // 1

NSCalendar *calendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar]; // 2

[calendar setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]]; // 3

NSDateComponents *dc = [calendar components:(NSHourCalendarUnit|NSMinuteCalendarUnit|

NSSecondCalendarUnit) fromDate:now]; // 4

NSLog(@"The time is %d:%d:%d", [dc hour], [dc minute], [dc second]); // 5

Parse date with NSDateFormatter

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

[dateFormatter setAMSymbol:@"AM"];

[dateFormatter setPMSymbol:@"PM"];

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];

NSString *str = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];

//display as: 10/05/2010 03:49PM

下面附上几个格式：这个是从Cocoachina上来的。呵呵。

yyyy:MM:dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss zzz          1996.07.10 AD at 15:08:56PDT

EEE, MMM d, "yy                                  Wed,july 10, '99

h:mm a                                             12:08PM

hh 'o"clock' a,zzzz                                12 o'clockPM, Pacific Daylight Time

K:mm a, z                                         0:00 PM, PST

yyyyy,MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa             01996.july.10 AD 12:08PM