Dateformatter issue in swift - ios

Question

My API sending me date string in UTC like 2/20/2016 11:45 AM.
For displaying date in my timezone, I am converting date from UTC to Local time zone like below code
let sourceDateString = "12/20/2016 11:45 AM"
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a"
formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")
let date = formatter.date(from: sourceDateString)
print(date)
formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.local
formatter.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy hh:mm a"
let strDate = formatter.string(from: date!)
print(strDate)
Above code is working fine if my device time format is in 12 HR but if I am using 24 Hr date from my device then above code is not working. Event it's not able to convert UTC string to date.
Please check above code in the device, it's working fine in simulator.

Answer 1

With help of #Martin R, Following code worked for me.
let sourceDateString = "12/20/2016 11:45 AM"
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a"
formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")
formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")
let date = formatter.date(from: sourceDateString)
print(date)
formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.local
formatter.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy hh:mm a"
let strDate = formatter.string(from: date!)
print(strDate)
I forgot to add "POSIX".

Answer 2

Code written in Swift 3.0
You need to give local identifier on date formatter.
Here is the following working and tested code.
let sourceDateString = "12/22/2016 09:19 AM"
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a"
formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en-US")
formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")
let date = formatter.date(from: sourceDateString)
print("\(date)")
formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.local
formatter.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy hh:mm a"
let strDate = formatter.string(from: date!)
print(strDate)
Please let me know if it works.

Answer 3

Quick fix for this is to convert 12hr to 24 hr format.
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateformatter.dateFormat = #"hh:mm a";
NSDate *date = [dateformatter dateFromString:departTime];
dateformatter.dateFormat = #"HH:mm";
NSString *time24 = [dateformatter stringFromDate:date];
departTimelbl.text=time24;
here you can replace
formatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a" with formatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm