How to convert string to NSDate in Swift? - ios

Question

How can I convert a string like 05/18/2017 this to NSDate?
I am trying to convert this string to NSDate so that I can extract the day as 18 and month as 05 and year as 2017. How can I convert this or can extract those values from strings.
func toDate(dateString : String, dateFormat : String = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX")-> NSDate!{
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = dateFormat
dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US_POSIX")
dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(forSecondsFromGMT: 0)
let convertedDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
return convertedDate
}
Now in code below selectedValue is 05/18/2017 but NSDateFromString always shows nil value:
let nsdateFromString = String.toDate(selectedValue)
What can I do in this case?

Answer 1

The default dateFormat value of your function toDate not matching the selectedValue's date format, so you need to pass dateFormat argument also with your method call with value MM/dd/yyyy.
let nsdateFromString = String.toDate(dateString: selectedValue, dateFormat: "MM/dd/yyyy")

Answer 2

**in SWIFT 3.0,**
let strDate = "12/21/2017"
let datefrmter = DateFormatter()
datefrmter.dateFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy"
let date = datefrmter.date(from: strDate)
print(date)

Answer 3

func convertSToD(date : String)-> Date?{
if date != "NA"{
let interval = Double(date)
let dateFormat = Date(timeIntervalSince1970: interval!)
return dateFormat
}
return nil
}

Answer 4

Try this :-
func toDate(dateString : String, dateFormat : String = "MM/dd/yyyy")-> NSDate!{
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = dateFormat
dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US_POSIX")
dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(forSecondsFromGMT: 0)
let convertedDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
return convertedDate
}

Answer 5

Convert Current date and time
let formatter1 = DateFormatter()
let date1 = Date.init()
formatter1.dateFormat = "dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm a"
let days = formatter1.string(from: date1 as Date)
print(days)

Answer 6

//in Swift 3.0 converting string to NSDate with its format
let dateString = self.scoring_date
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z"
dateFormatter.locale = Locale.init(identifier: "en_GB")
self.dateObj = dateFormatter.date(from: dateString! as String )!
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
print("Dateobj: \(dateFormatter.string(from: self.dateObj))")
//converting NSDate to String
let today = Date()
today.toString(dateFormat: "dd-MM")