Very useful, yet short and simple, code snippet on how to rip the NSDate from NSString using NSDateFormatter:
NSString *dateString = @”2014-01-19″;
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
// this is imporant – we set our input date format to match our input string, if format doesn’t match you’ll get nil from your string, so be careful
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@”yyyy-MM-dd”];
NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];