Very useful, yet short and simple, code snippet on how to rip the NSDate from NSString using NSDateFormatter:
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NSString *dateString = @"2010-01-19";NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];// this is imporant - we set our input date format to match our input string// if format doesn't match you'll get nil from your string, so be careful[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"];NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];// ta-daaa!dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];If you need more info about different date formats see Unicode Date Format Patterns. Of course if you usually work with standard dates you can use setDateStyle instead of setDateFormat.