How to convert string to date to string in Swift iOS?

ios string swift nsdate nsdateformatter
Yuvaraj.M picture Yuvaraj.M · Oct 22, 2015 · Viewed 119.8k times · Source

Am learning swift and am struck in converting the date String to NSDate to string. Am getting the date string in this format "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:45:17 +0000". I need to show the date in the MM-dd-yyyy format. I tried the following code but, it returns "null".

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.MediumStyle
let dateObj = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString!)
print("Dateobj: \(dateObj)")

Can anyone please help where am going wrong? Looking forward the help. Thanks in advance.

Answer

t4nhpt picture t4nhpt · Oct 22, 2015

First, you need to convert your string to NSDate with its format. Then, you change the dateFormatter to your simple format and convert it back to a String.

Swift 3

let dateString = "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:45:17 +0000"
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz"
dateFormatter.locale = Locale.init(identifier: "en_GB")

let dateObj = dateFormatter.date(from: dateString)

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
print("Dateobj: \(dateFormatter.string(from: dateObj!))")

The printed result is: Dateobj: 10-22-2015

Related questions

How can I convert string date to NSDate?

I want to convert "2014-07-15 06:55:14.198000+00:00" this string date to NSDate in Swift.

Read More
Convert Swift string to array

How can I convert a string "Hello" to an array ["H","e","l","l","o"] in Swift? In Objective-C I have used this: NSMutableArray *characters = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:[myString length]]; for (int i=0; i < [myString length]; i++) { NSString *ichar = […

Read More
Swift apply .uppercaseString to only the first letter of a string

I am trying to make an autocorrect system, and when a user types a word with a capital letter, the autocorrect doesn't work. In order to fix this, I made a copy of the string typed, applied .lowercaseString, and then …

Read More