How to get a correct date format

Question

Hi Experts,
I fetched a record from the table KALV. Here its showing the date format as DD.MM.YYYY. But in my internal table and my output its showing YYYYMMDD.
How to solve this?
Actually this report needs to show the output as per the user's format. Because may have different format. Accoriding to there format it should show the output.
How todo this?
Anyone guide this?
Mohana
Moderator Message: Basic Question.
Edited by: kishan P on Feb 3, 2011 4:14 PM

Answer 1

Here's a sample of the code:
[NSDateFormatter setDefaultFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterShortStyle];
NSDate *date = [ dateFormatter dateFromString:@"7/4/2008" ];
NSLog(@"string from date %@: %@ for locale %@", date, [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date], [[dateFormatter locale] localeIdentifier]);
(the same code without the messed up forum syntax is at http://pastebin.com/f695ef95b)
When I set my region (in the International system preferences) to be United States, it prints:
2008-08-14 20:20:31.117 Date Difference[17226:10b] string from date 2008-07-04 00:00:00 -0400: 7/4/08 for locale en_US
And when my region is United Kingdom, it prints:
2008-08-14 20:19:23.441 Date Difference[17199:10b] string from date 2008-04-07 00:00:00 -0400: 07/04/2008 for locale en_GB
It looks like the NSDateFormatter is insensitive to the change of regions. Notice that the raw printing of the date is properly switching with the region, though.
What do I have to do to get the NSDateFormatter to respect the region setting?