I'm trying to convert a date string into a NSDate. I have this input date string 2014-10-09 17:57 and this timezone +4 or Asia/Dubai and for some reason, i get this NSDate after i execute the code below 2014-10-09 13:57:00 +0000.
let dateString = "2014-10-09 17:57"
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"
formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "Asia/Dubai")
println("\(formatter.dateFromString(dateString))")
I want to get a date like this 2014-10-09 17:57 +0400. What am i doing wrong? Can you help me figure it out? I need the date to make some calculations between this one and another one which is correctly formatted with timezone.
It helps to breakup compound statements. The result of the formatter is a date, seconds since the reference date (GMT), it has no concept of a format or timezone.
The println() displays the date based ion the default formatting of there description method.
If you want it display in a particular way use a date formatter to create the desired string representation.
Example:
let dateString = "2014-10-09 17:57"
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"
formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "Asia/Dubai")
let date = formatter.dateFromString(dateString)
println("date: \(date!)") // date: 2014-10-09 13:57:00 +0000
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm Z"
let formattedDateString = formatter.stringFromDate(date!)
println("formattedDateString: \(formattedDateString)") // formattedDateString: 2014-10-09 17:57 +0400
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I have a string coming from API and its format will be like this
"2021-03-01T15:00:00+07:00"
so i try to convert this string to date using this code
// string to date
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"
let date = dateFormatter.date(from: isoDate)!
print("date from date Formatter = \(date)")
// convert date back to string
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE HH:mm"
let dateString = dateFormatter.string(from: date)
print("date string \(dateString)")
return dateString
The result that I expect is -> "2021-03-01 08:00:00 +0000", "Monday 15:00"
When I try this on playground the result is what I want, but when I try this on my project the result is
-> "1478-03-01 08:00:00 +0000", "Sunday 14:42"
How can I change the result to the same as i expect? Thanks
It looks like you are using a different calendar than you expect in your project (buddhist maybe?) and I guess this is because you haven't set one explicitly so it's the one set in System Preferences.
So if you for some reason do not want to use the users current calendar (and locale and time zone) you need to set those properties on your date formatter instance
//Gregorian calendar
dateFormatter.calendar = Calendar.init(identifier: .gregorian)
//UTC time zone
dateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")
//English locale
dateFormatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")
This will give you the expected output.
Note that the playground is a bit inconsequent in what it uses and it seems to be a mix of what we have set in our System preferences and hardcoded values.
I know this is a topic with several answers and whilst maybe i missed something similar to mine, in all my effort i've looked but can't find the same thing:
I have a string of date format:
24/12/2019 10:34 AM
I am trying to convert it to Date type, but this is what i get when i print the converted date:
2019-12-24 08:34:00 +0000
It is ALWAYS 2 hours behind.
I have tried:
dateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "CAT")
and
dateFormatter.timeZone = .current
to absolutely no avail. Also, the printed date is not formatted according to my required format
dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm a
My code is as below:
var dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm a"
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "CAT")
dateFormatter.dateFormat = dateFormat
let date = dateFormatter.date(from: "24/12/2019 10:34 AM")
print(date)
Any assistance would be appreciated
**
GET GMT DATE STRING
**
func getGMTString(dateAsDate:NSDate) -> String
{
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"//this your string date format
// dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale.currentLocale()
// dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "GMT")
let date = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(dateAsDate)
return date
}
OUTPUT
startDate---2016-06-29 00:00:00 GMT+5:30
endDate----2016-06-30 03:57:39 GMT+5:30
NOW TRYING to get GMT Date object from output string
func getGMTDate(string:String) -> NSDate {
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"//this your string date format
// dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(abbreviation: "GMT")!
// dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale.currentLocale()
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(string)
return date!
}
PROBLEM: OUTPUT DATE OBJECT MESS
startDateOBJECT---2016-06-28 18:30:00 +0000 endDateOBJECT----2016-06-30 17:30:00 +0000
Unable to figure what is going wrong
I don't understand your step 3. I looks like you're using NSLog or a Swift print to display the resulting date. That is ALWAYS done in UTC.
If you want to view your date in a different format, or with your local time zone, you need a second date formatter to convert the NSDate to an output date string.
Here's the flow:
input date string -> input date formatter -> NSDate
NSDate -> output date formatter -> display date in local time zone
My code:
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString("2015-09-01 00-32-40")
Result: 2015-08-31 17:32:40
But I want get result like this: 17:32. How do I resolve it?
If you're trying to get an NSDate and not a string representation, printing the NSDate will always show the full date time. To just show the hours and minutes, you'll have to create a string representation using an "HH:mm" date format, ex:
// Your original code
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString("2015-09-01 00-32-40")
// To convert the date into an HH:mm format
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm"
let dateString = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date!)
println(dateString)
Not sure why you're looking to get a result of "17:32", but this will produce "00:32" as a result from the original "00-32" portion of the string.
I have this Optional(2015-07-27 19:29:50 +0000) as a string? and I want to convert it to a date (NSDate) but I can't figure it out I've been searching a lot for solutions but I am pretty new to coding so if anyone could help I would appreciate it.
This is what I am using to convert the string to a date currently.
note: dateString is Optional(2015-07-27 19:29:50 +0000)
dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
println(dateFormatter)
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
let s = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
I always get a nil value
If you are getting nil from NSDateFormatter, you likely specified incorrect date format. Try this:
let strTime = "2015-07-27 19:29:50 +0000"
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z"
formatter.dateFromString(strTime) // Returns "Jul 27, 2015, 12:29 PM" PST
You will want to use a NSDateFormatter and call dateFromString: on it to get the date from the string. See Apple's NSDateFormatter documentation for a great explanation of doing what you want.
In swift 3.0:
let strTime = "2015-07-27 19:29:50 +0000"
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z"
formatter.date(from: strTime)
dateString is already date and need to convert to string. Below code is working fine
dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
println(dateFormatter)
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
let s = dateFormatter.string(from: dateString)