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I am trying to parse a date string from xml into an NSDate object in an iPhone app I am aware this must have been asked before, however, I believe I have the right syntax, but it is not working. Is there a problem with my code? The date string I need to parse is: 2011-01-21T12:26:47-05:00 The code I am using to parse it is: self.dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [self.dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]]; [self.dateFormatter setLocale:[[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"] autorelease]]; [self.dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss'Z'"]; ... else if([elementName isEqualToString:kUpdated]){ self.currentQuestion.updated = [self.dateFormatter dateFromString:self.currentParsedCharacterData ]; } Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks! **Based on the link reference from theChrisKent I fixed the problem like so: else if([elementName isEqualToString:kLastOnDeck]){ NSString *dateStr = self.currentParsedCharacterData; // we need to strip out the single colon dateStr = [dateStr stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@":" withString:@"" options:0 range:NSMakeRange([dateStr length] - 5,5)]; self.currentQuestion.lastOnDeck = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateStr]; }

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