I'm using NSDate to get a string such as "18 Jun 09", with code:

NSDate *theDate = [NSDate date];
NSString *dateString = [theDate descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%d %b %y"
        timeZone:nil
        locale: nil];

This works, but only results in an English output. I need the output to be localized in the user's default language.

Does Cocoa (Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 in this case) provide a facility for this localization or do I have to manually localize for each case of day and & month names my self?

(I have provided a locale, but although that does provide a locale-specific ordering of the date, it does not appear to do any localization of day-month names.)