Swift Date Time Formatting

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Overview Patterns Swift 4 Date Time Examples  Swift 3 Date Time Examples

Overview

Swift is a programming language for macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS.  Chances are if you are developing a mobile app for iphones, ipads or iwatches, you’ll need to learn swift.  Date Time Formatting in Swift is based off of the DateFormatter class which can be used to manipulate dates and times. An Instance of DateFormatter creates a string representation of NSDate objects, and can also convert textual representations of dates and times into NSDate objects.

Patterns

Date Time Formatting in Swift 4

 

func convertDateFormatter(date: String) -> String {
    let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"//this your string date format
    dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "UTC") as TimeZone!
    dateFormatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "your_loc_id")
    let convertedDate = dateFormatter.date(from: date)

    guard dateFormatter.date(from: date) != nil else {
        assert(false, "no date from string")
        return ""
    } 

    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy MMM HH:mm EEEE"///this is what you want to convert format
    dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "UTC") as TimeZone!
    let timeStamp = dateFormatter.string(from: convertedDate!)

    return timeStamp
}

 

Date Time formatting in Swift 3

 

func convertDateFormater(date: String) -> String {   
    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"
    dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "UTC")

    guard let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(date) else {
        assert(false, "no date from string")
        return ""
    }

    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy MMM EEEE HH:mm"
    dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "UTC")
    let timeStamp = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date)

    return timeStamp
}