While working on an iPhone application recently, I needed to convert a date read from an XML stream that was in the following format: 20081122 to a nicely formatted string for display on the device: Saturday November 22, 2008.
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In the first post on working with dates several of the examples use the “old style” date format syntax. The examples work, however, I want to show an additional example that uses the ICU (International Components for Unicode) library for format strings.
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