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Authors
Richard Frith-Macdonald (richard@brainstorm.co.uk
Date: Generated at 2026-06-22
Copyright: (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
class_NSDateFormatter
NSFormatter
NSFormatter
NSDateFormatter
NSDateFormatter
NSFormatter->NSDateFormatter
p_NSCopying
NSCopying
p_NSCopying->NSDateFormatter
p_NSCoding
NSCoding
p_NSCoding->NSDateFormatter
Declared in: Foundation/NSDateFormatter.h
Conforms to: NSCoding NSCopying
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
NSDateFormatter declares 2 Instance Variables
+ (void)
setDefaultFormatterBehavior: (
NSDateFormatterBehavior )behavior;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSString *)
AMSymbol ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSString *)
PMSymbol ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (BOOL)
allowsNaturalLanguage ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Returns whether initialized to support natural
language formatting. If YES,
string-to-object conversion will attempt
to process strings as natural language dates, such as
"yesterday", or "first Tuesday of next month"
if straight format-based conversion fails.
- (
NSCalendar *)
calendar ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSString *)
dateFormat ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Returns format string initialized with, specifying
how dates are formatted, for object-to-string
conversion, and how they are parsed, for
string-to-object conversion. For example,
@"%b %d, %Y" specifies strings similar
to "June 18, 1991".
- (
NSDate *)
dateFromString: (
NSString *)string;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSDate *)
defaultDate ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (BOOL)
doesRelativeDateFormatting ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.6.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
eraSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (BOOL)
generatesCalendarDates ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (BOOL)
getObjectValue: (out id*)obj
forString: (
NSString *)string
range: (inout
NSRange *)range
error: (out
NSError **)error;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSDate *)
gregorianStartDate ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (id)
initWithDateFormat: (
NSString *)format
allowNaturalLanguage: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Initialize with given specifier string
format . See class description for how to
specify a format string. If
flag is YES, string-to-object
conversion will attempt to process strings as
natural language dates, such as "yesterday", or
"first Tuesday of next month" if straight
format-based conversion fails.
- (BOOL)
isLenient ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSLocale *)
locale ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
longEraSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
monthSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
quarterSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setAMSymbol: (
NSString *)string;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setCalendar: (
NSCalendar *)calendar;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setDateFormat: (
NSString *)string;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setDateStyle: (
NSDateFormatterStyle )style;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setDefaultDate: (
NSDate *)date;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setDoesRelativeDateFormatting: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.6.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setEraSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setFormatterBehavior: (
NSDateFormatterBehavior )behavior;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setGeneratesCalendarDates: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setGregorianStartDate: (
NSDate *)date;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setLenient: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setLocale: (
NSLocale *)locale;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setLongEraSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setMonthSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setPMSymbol: (
NSString *)string;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setQuarterSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setShortMonthSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setShortQuarterSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setShortStandaloneMonthSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setShortStandaloneQuarterSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setShortStandaloneWeekdaySymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setShortWeekdaySymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setStandaloneMonthSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setStandaloneQuarterSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setStandaloneWeekdaySymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setTimeStyle: (
NSDateFormatterStyle )style;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setTimeZone: (
NSTimeZone *)tz;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setTwoDigitStartDate: (
NSDate *)date;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setVeryShortMonthSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setVeryShortStandaloneMonthSymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setVeryShortStandaloneWeekdaySymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setVeryShortWeekdaySymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (void)
setWeekdaySymbols: (
NSArray *)array;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
shortMonthSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
shortQuarterSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
shortStandaloneMonthSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
shortStandaloneQuarterSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
shortStandaloneWeekdaySymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
shortWeekdaySymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
standaloneMonthSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
standaloneQuarterSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
standaloneWeekdaySymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSString *)
stringFromDate: (
NSDate *)date;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSTimeZone *)
timeZone ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSDate *)
twoDigitStartDate ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
veryShortMonthSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
veryShortStandaloneMonthSymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
veryShortStandaloneWeekdaySymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
veryShortWeekdaySymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.5.0
Description forthcoming.
- (
NSArray *)
weekdaySymbols ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0
Description forthcoming.
Instance Variables for NSDateFormatter Class
@protected BOOL
_allowsNaturalLanguage ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Warning the underscore at the start of the
name of this instance variable indicates that, even
though it is not technically private , it is
intended for internal use within the package, and
you should not use the variable in other code.
@protected NSString*
_dateFormat ;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Warning the underscore at the start of the
name of this instance variable indicates that, even
though it is not technically private , it is
intended for internal use within the package, and
you should not use the variable in other code.
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