Date formatting error between different time zones

Asked Aug 04 '15 at 11:41

Active Aug 04 '15 at 12:35

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I am trying to convert a string to an NSDate variable and print both the string and date. Because of an error in the date format, it always convert the hour of the string to hour+7 in date.

      let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
      dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZ"
      let date: NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(timeStamp)!

      println("String is is \(timeStamp)")
      println(date)

It prints String is 2015-07-10T16:33:00-07:00 for the first line and 2015-07-10 23:33:00 +0000 for the second line.

How can I resolve this issue?

edited Aug 04 '15 at 12:35

asked Aug 04 '15 at 11:41

Sıla Güler

Where are you in the world? – Fogmeister Aug 04 '15 at 11:46
What's your issue? a NSDate and a NSString aren't the same. It's the same date, check the "-07:00". – Larme Aug 04 '15 at 11:50
Your date string is expressed with a time zone of -7 hours, so converted to a time zone of 0 (as the NSDateFormatter does) you are getting 7 added to 16:33, giving 23:33 – Clafou Aug 04 '15 at 11:53
oh i see now :) thanks @Clafou – Sıla Güler Aug 04 '15 at 12:03
@SılaGüler some good answers on setting the time zone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24917483/swift-nsdate-utc-time-and-local-tme – sbarow Aug 04 '15 at 12:07

Date formatting error between different time zones

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