ios - Nsdateformatter + Timezone issue

Question

I am trying to parse this date timestamp Begin to string:

Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:51:41 EEST

This issue with only

EEST

, I have tried z or zzz or V, nothing happened. Date formatter always getting NULL.

While I am cutting EEST from string, everything goes OK.

Could anyone suggest, how to solve this issue?

Thanks

UPDATE:

dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_EN_POSIX"]];
[dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"EEST"]];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss V"];
dateFromString = [dateFormat dateFromString:beginString];

Answer 1

Try this instead:

NSString *beginString = @"Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:51:41 EEST";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en-GB"]];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"];
NSDate *dateFromString = [dateFormat dateFromString:beginString];

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