This may be useful for who want to use dateformatter.dateformat; if you want 12.09.18 you use dateformatter.dateformat = “dd.MM.yy” Wednesday, Sep 12, 2018 –> EEEE, MMM d, yyyy 09/12/2018 –> MM/dd/yyyy 09-12-2018 14:11 –> MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm Sep 12, 2:11 PM –> MMM d, h:mm a September 2018 –> MMMM yyyy Sep 12, 2018 –> MMM … Read more
some more option Now you want all the string formats that can be used with NSDateFormatter. Here is that a: AM/PM A: 0~86399999 (Millisecond of Day) c/cc: 1~7 (Day of Week) ccc: Sun/Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat cccc: Sunday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday d: 1~31 (0 padded Day of Month) D: 1~366 (0 padded Day of Year) e: 1~7 (0 … Read more
From http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/310977-nsdateformatter-not-working-on-ios-5.html#311281 The change in parsing of abbreviated time zone names in iOS 5.0 is a result of an intentional change in the open-source ICU 4.8 library (and the open-source CLDR 2.0 data that it uses), a modified version of which is used to implement some of the NSDateFormatter functionality. The issue is this: With … Read more
The standard ISO8601 date format with fractional seconds and time zone is yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSZ let myDate = “2016-06-20T13:01:46.457+02:00” let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter() dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: “en_US_POSIX”) // edited dateFormatter.dateFormat = “yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSZ” let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(myDate)! dateFormatter.dateFormat = “dd/MM/yyyy” let dateString = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date) Swift 3: let myDate = “2016-06-20T13:01:46.457+02:00” let dateFormatter = DateFormatter() dateFormatter.locale = Locale(identifier: “en_US_POSIX”) … Read more
If the date string is in GMT you can’t use your system Timezone to create the NSDate from the NSString. replace the first occurrence of [dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]]; with [dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@”GMT”]];
If you’re really looking for direct analog to the method in your question, you could do something like: class MyObject { // define static variable private static let formatter: DateFormatter = { let formatter = DateFormatter() formatter.dateFormat = “EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy” return formatter }() // you could use it like so func … Read more
Not sure if you still need it, but I’ve had a similar problem which got solved by setting the locale for the date formatter. That is, if you want to force it to 12-hour mode, regardless of the user’s 24/12 hour mode setting, you should set the locale to en_US_POSIX.
To process the time zone with the colon in it, you just need to use 5 ‘Z’s. This is a pretty common date format, the ISO-8601 format. This will only work on iOS 6.x+ -(NSDate *) dateFromString:(NSString *)string { NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [formatter setDateFormat:@”yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ssZZZZZ”]; return [formatter dateFromString:string]; }
format should be HH for 24 hours even you are getting values only for 12 hours. frmt1.dateFormat = “MMM, dd yyyy HH:mm a”
It’s because you are not setting the date formatter’s locale to the special en_US_POSIX locale. Most likely your iPhone 5 has a different setting for the 24-hour setting. You need to set the special locale whenever you parse a fixed format string.