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Created April 14, 2011 08:06
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Format a NSDate according to the current locale
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gistfile1.m
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSString *localizedDateFormat = [NSDateFormatter dateFormatFromTemplate:@"MMMM d, y" options:0 locale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:localizedDateFormat];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];
[dateFormatter release];
// dateString will be "April 19, 2010" for US and "19. April 2010" for DE locale
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