Re: dateFromString always returns null

[Steven LeMaire]

Thanks Guys, that was the problem. I had to completely remove GNUstep and 
rebuild/install once ICU was installed.

Cheers
Steven

On 2013-02-11, at 8:20 AM, Stefan Bidi wrote:

> Slackware 13.37 does not offer ICU in the base distribution so you
> will need to get it from SlackBuilds
> (http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/libraries/icu4c/).
> 
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On 10 Feb 2013, at 21:01, Steven LeMaire wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> 
>>> I really don't understand why the code below isn't working for me. I've 
>>> tried setting a locale and timezone on the date formatter, but it's had no 
>>> affect.
>>> I'm running this on Slackware 13.37, I've just updated to the latest stable 
>>> version of GNUstep also.
>>> Any help would be appreciated !
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Steven
>>> 
>>> #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
>>> #import <Foundation/NSDate.h>
>>> #import <Foundation/NSDateFormatter.h>
>>> int
>>> main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
>>> NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>>> 
>>> 
>>> NSDate *d;
>>> NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
>>> [df setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMdd"];
>>> d = [df dateFromString:@"20130215"];
>>> 
>>> NSLog(@"d is: %@", d);
>>> 
>>> [pool release];
>>> 
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>> _
>> 
>> That looks fine to me ... so my best guess is you built base without support 
>> for NSDateFormatter.
>> That would happen if you are on a system where ICU is not installed or can't 
>> be found:
>> You should have seen a warning about that when you ran 'configure' for the 
>> base library.
>> 
>> The fix would be to rebuild base with ICU (I don't know slackware, but I 
>> guess you might need to install an ICU developer package).
>> 
>> A workaround would be to use NSCalendarDate rather than NSDateFormatter
>> 
>> 
>> 
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