Objective -C Date Formatter Examples - stringFromDate For Example: Saturday November 8, 2008 : NSDate *today = [NSDate date]; NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEEE MMMM d, YYYY"]; NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:today]; [dateFormat release]; Here’s another example showing the current time 9:20 AM, PST : NSDate *today = [NSDate date]; NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"h:mm a, zzz"]; NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:today]; [dateFormat release];