How to use NSDateFormatter in Objective-C ?

       NSDate *date = [NSDate date];

    NSDateFormatter *_formatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];

    [_formatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];

    NSString *_date=[_formatter stringFromDate:date];

       NSDate *date = [NSDate date];

    NSDateFormatter *_formatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];

    [_formatter setDateFormat:@"HH.mm.ss"];

    NSString *_time=[_formatter stringFromDate:date];

Given above 2  examples above display how to get current Date in format specified by NSDateFormatter  f and how to get current Time in format specified. You will get the output looking something like 13-05-2011 for the first piece of code(Note that date will be the today's date) and second code is giving out the time as 09.21.33 (hour, mins then followed by seconds).