title: NSDateFormatter Strings in iOS 7
body: <p>Attempting to format a date in an iOS 7 and getting some unexpected results for day of the week.  Apple's documentation does not list patterns for iOS 7, but the patterns provided for iOS 6 are <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-25.html#Date_Format_Patterns" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Looking at the day of the week section</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Day of week - Use one through three letters for the short day, or four for the full name, or 
    five for the narrow name.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>However I'm unable to get the 4 letter full name formatter string to work.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  [formatter setDateFormat:@"EEE"];
  NSLog(@"%@", [formatter stringFromDate:date]);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>prints "Wed"</p>
  
  <pre><code>NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  [formatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
  NSLog(@"%@", [formatter stringFromDate:date]);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>also prints "Wed", should print "Wednesday"</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  [formatter setDateFormat:@"EEEEE"];
  NSLog(@"%@", [formatter stringFromDate:date]);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>prints "W"</p>
  
  <p>Is there a new set of formatting strings that should be used for iOS 7 or am I doing something incorrectly?</p>