Discussion

There are many new attributes you can get and set on a 10.4-style date formatter, including the locale, time zone, calendar, format string, the two-digit-year cross-over date, the default date which provides unspecified components, and there is also access to the various textual strings, like the month names. You are encouraged, however, not to change individual settings. Instead you should accept the default settings established on initialization and specify the format using setDateStyle:, setTimeStyle:, and appropriate style constants (see NSDateFormatterStyle‚Äîthese are styles that the user can configure in the International preferences panel in System Preferences).