NSDateFormatter not showing full month name, only single digit number

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Chris picture Chris · Aug 24, 2012 · Viewed 36.3k times · Source

Not sure what the issue is, but instead of getting a month name "July", I get "07". 

dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setLocale:[NSLocale systemLocale]];
[dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];    
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd, h:mm a"];

I have tried M, MM, MMM, MMMM, and all of them give me a number, instead of the month name, though with different amounts of leading 0s.

Answer

Chris picture Chris · Aug 24, 2012

Turns out to be an issue with the second line, setLocale. I assume that the system won't default to using english month names when the locale has been manually set? I live in an english speaking locale, but maybe it doesn't matter.

In any case, not setting the locale fixes the month name issue.

dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];    
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MMMM dd, h:mm a"];

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