how to convert english date to arabic date ios swift - ios

Question

in my app i am getting date in this format = "2016-02-15 10:49:59" bu i want to display it in this format "الأربعاء, 9 مارس, 2016 10:33 ص" so how can i do this?
i mage showing the format in which i want iot

Answer 1

You can make use of NSDateFormatter and locale "ar_DZ", with a custom format specification to fit your needs: "EEEE, d, MMMM, yyyy HH:mm a".
// input date in given format (as string)
let inputDateAsString = "2016-03-09 10:33:59"
// initialize formatter and set input date format
var formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
// read input date string as NSDate instance
if let date = formatter.dateFromString(inputDateAsString) {
// set locale to "ar_DZ" and format as per your specifications
formatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "ar_DZ")
formatter.dateFormat = "EEEE, d, MMMM, yyyy HH:mm a"
let outputDate = formatter.stringFromDate(date)
print(outputDate) // الأربعاء, 9 مارس, 2016 10:33 ص
}
Note that the above uses the default gregorian calendar (in so not translating e.g. year 2016 to year 1437 (/1438 ~October 2016) in the islamic calendar).
(Edit addition regarding your comment below)
If you change localeIdentifier above from "ar_DZ" to "ar", also numeric values gets written in arabic characters:
print(outputDate) // الأربعاء, ٩ مارس, ٢٠١٦ ١٠:٣٣ ص
However, I don't know arabic, so I can't really say if your image above displays that, and I'm no longer certain what you're trying to achieve; possibly this is not it.

Answer 2

Check this
let morningOfChristmasComponents = NSDateComponents()
morningOfChristmasComponents.year = 2014
morningOfChristmasComponents.month = 12
morningOfChristmasComponents.day = 25
morningOfChristmasComponents.hour = 7
morningOfChristmasComponents.minute = 0
morningOfChristmasComponents.second = 0
let morningOfChristmas = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateFromComponents(morningOfChristmasComponents)!
/***** NSDateFormatter Part *****/
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.LongStyle
formatter.timeStyle = .MediumStyle
formatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "ar")
let dateString = formatter.stringFromDate(morningOfChristmas)
txtMarks.text = dateString

Answer 3

For solving of youre issue try to use legend way with NSCalendar style:
var today = NSDate()
let islamic = NSCalendar(identifier:NSCalendarIdentifierIslamicCivil)!
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateStyle = .LongStyle
formatter.timeStyle = .MediumStyle
formatter.calendar = islamic
formatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "ar_DZ")
formatter.stringFromDate(today) // "30 جمادى الأولى، 1437 هـ، 11:22:10 ص"
To configure proper style set yore's dateStyle and timeStyle also set up youre NSLocale.