converting timestamp to nsdate format

Question

I want to convert my timestamp value 1308031456 to NSDate format (which yields the value Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:04:16 GMT in online web conversion). How would I convert between the two programmatically?

user_14369291 · Answer

Here is a code piece which lets you convert the unix type timestamp to Formatted Date

NSString * timeStampString =@"1304245000";
NSTimeInterval _interval=[timeStampString doubleValue];
NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:_interval];
NSDateFormatter *_formatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[_formatter setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.yyyy"];
NSString *_date=[_formatter stringFromDate:date];

This will print _date something like 05.03.2011

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