gistfile1.m

// Instance method in my XML Reader to easily read dates from the XML
// Pretty sure I have the date formatting right, per the link from the Apple documentation
// http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-4.html#Date_Format_Patterns

-(NSDate *)dateWithString:(NSString *)dateString {
    NSDateFormatter * formatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-DD HH:mm:ss ZZ"];
    NSLog(@"Converting '%@' to '%@'", dateString, [formatter dateFromString:dateString]);
    return [formatter dateFromString:dateString];
}

// Except everything is coming in as January
// Logging results
// "Converting '2010-09-23 00:00:00 -0500' to '2010-01-22 23:00:00 -0600'"
// "Converting '2011-11-11 00:00:00 -0500' to '2011-01-10 23:00:00 -0600'"