Convert Date( 934146000000+0300) into NSString [duplicate] - objective-c

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I get the birthday by parsing the xml. In
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser*)parser didEndElement
method ,I convert the value of the <birthday></birthday> element into NSDate but it returns /Date(934146000000+0300)/:
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:#"dd-MM-yyyy"];
NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:currentStringValue];
How can I convert it into NSDate to be able to converting into NSString?

Answer 1

It looks like you're retrieving the value from a long var.
It currently refers to Mon, 29 Nov 31571 00:00:00 GMT
If you remove three 0s from the end it makes sense...
934146000 = Sun, 08 Aug 1999 21:00:00 GMT
You also need to fix the formatting. The format dd-MM-yyyy will not be able to understand 934146000.
You can do something like...
CGFloat dateValue = 934146000;
NSDate *theDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:dateValue];
This should get the correct date.
But like I said, you need to sort out the value you are getting first.

Answer 2

Seems you are getting the value from Java or C#, as current time in millisecond.
In Objective C, NSDate expect the time as second, not in millisecond. So you have to divide it by 1000.
NSDate * dateOfBirth = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:[recvDate floatValue]/1000.0];
You can use something like below, but you still need correction for the millisecond to second value.
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.dateFormat = #"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZZ";
NSDate * date = [formatter dateFromString:str];