NSString to NSDate

I got a string that contains the current date by using this :

NSString *date = [[NSDate date] description];

At a different point I want to retrieve the date from this string and I used the following code:

[NSDateFormatter setDefaultFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
//[NSDateFormatter setDefaultFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehaviorDefault];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ±HHMM"];

NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:<NSString containing date>];

I am getting dateFromString as nil 0x0. What am I doing wrong?