ios - In what format is this date string?

Question

Im trying to convert a bunch of NSStrings into NSDate objects. Here is an example string:

2013-04-25T15:51:30.427+1.00

But I can't figure out what format it is in, so far I have (The question marks are the bits I'm stumped with):

yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss????zzz

The main problem I'm having is with the '.427' part although if I'm making a mistake elsewhere, let me know :)

Does anyone have any ideas? Or could point me to a list of all the possible date format specifiers? I found this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx which is useful but it doesn't appear to have any specifier for the '.427' part that I'm stuck on.

Any help is appreciated, Thanks.

Answer 1

The proper format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZZZZ.

See Unicode Date Format Patterns.

Also, the ZZZZZ format for the +00:00 timezone format was added to iOS 6 and is not supported under iOS 5 or earlier.