DatePicker - How to display date Month name in three characters instead of number

Question

This is my first ever attempt at Swift or an iPhone app, so needless to say I'm not sure how to do many things at this point.

I want to show the date like this in my textfield

02 Feb 2016

But right now it displays like this

 2/7/16

here is my code

@IBAction func dateTextFieldBeginEditing(sender: UITextField) {


       // let datePickerView:UIDatePicker = UIDatePicker()

        datePickerView.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerMode.Date

        sender.inputView = datePickerView

        datePickerView.addTarget(self, action: Selector("datePickerValueChanged:"), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.ValueChanged)

    }

    func datePickerValueChanged(sender:UIDatePicker) {


        let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

        dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.MediumStyle


        dateFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.NoStyle

        departureDateTextField.text = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(sender.date)

    }

rushisangani · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-09T09:47:17.733

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Set date format like this!! This will give you date like 02 Feb 2016. Also remove dateStyle and timeStyle property from your code.

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy"

dateFormatter.stringFromDate(NSDate())

This gives me output as 09 FEB 2016

edited Feb 09 '16 at 09:47

answered Feb 09 '16 at 09:36

rushisangani

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Please check your code, this works perfectly fine. Refer my edited answer. – rushisangani Feb 09 '16 at 09:47
@ iOSEnthusiatic Okay Its working but datepicker is showing AM/PM and also week days which I don't want. – hellosheikh Feb 09 '16 at 09:56
you've already set datePickerView.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerMode.Date to show only dates. – rushisangani Feb 09 '16 at 10:00
yeah I mistakenly commented that line.. Its okay now.. Thanks – hellosheikh Feb 09 '16 at 10:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 09 '16 at 09:44

func datePickerValueChanged(sender:UIDatePicker) {

        let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy"
        let dateString = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(sender.date)
        departureDateTextField.text = dateString

    }

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 08 '21 at 08:59

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let timestamp = NSDateFormatter.localizedStringFromDate(NSDate(), dateStyle: .MediumStyle, timeStyle: .NoStyle)
print(timestamp)

edited Nov 08 '21 at 08:59

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answered Feb 09 '16 at 09:56

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 11 '16 at 10:54

1) Add an Extension of NSDate

extension NSDate {
    func dateStringWithFormat(format: String) -> String {
        let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = format
        return dateFormatter.stringFromDate(self)
    }
}

2) Make two public variables

var datePicker:UIDatePicker?
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()

3) Add to UIDatePicker

let dateString = NSDate().dateStringWithFormat("yyyy-MM-dd")
print("Today's Date: "+dateString)
datePicker?.date = formatter.dateFromString(dateString)!

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 02 '17 at 07:36

 func datePicker(sender:UIDatePicker) {

    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy"

    //// dd MMM yyyy == 02 Feb 2016

    let dateData = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(sender.date)

    departureDateTextField.text = dateData

}

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 08 '19 at 05:06

override func viewDidLoad()
{
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.datePicker.backgroundColor = .white
    self.datePicker.datePickerMode = .date
    let loc = Locale.init(identifier: "pt-BR")
    var calendar = Calendar.current
    calendar.locale = loc
    self.datePicker.calendar = calendar
    self.datePicker.locale = loc

    self.datePicker.addTarget(self, action: #selector(ViewController.handleDatePicker), for: UIControl.Event.valueChanged)
}

@objc func handleDatePicker()
{
    let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd-MMM-yyyy"
    let loc = Locale.init(identifier: "pt-BR")
    dateFormatter.locale = loc
    print(dateFormatter.string(from: self.datePicker.date))
 }

sorry that answer is giving for other question it's post by mistake [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47056329/swift-change-date-picker-language] — Kops, Mar 14 '19 at 06:56

DatePicker - How to display date Month name in three characters instead of number

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