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CFDateFormatter

Declaration

class CFDateFormatter

Overview

CFDateFormatter objects format the textual representations of CFDate and CFAbsoluteTime objects, and convert textual representations of dates and times into CFDate and CFAbsoluteTime objects. You can express the representation of dates and times very flexibly, for example “Thu 22 Dec 1994” is just as acceptable as “12/22/94.” You specify how strings are formatted and parsed by setting a format string and other properties of a CFDateFomatter object.

The format of the format string itself is defined by Unicode Technical Standard #35; the version of the standard used varies with release of the operating system, and is described in Introduction to Data Formatting Programming Guide For Cocoa.

Topics

Creating a Date Formatter

Configuring a Date Formatter

Parsing Strings

Creating Strings From Data

Getting Information About a Date Formatter

Getting the CFDateFormatter Type ID

Data Types

Constants

See Also

Related Documentation

  • Data Formatting Guide for Core Foundation

Opaque Types