String into NSDate Swift2

Question

I obtain the following string from my JSON response :

2016-05-24 17:13:08

I use the following code to parse it into an NSDate :

if let messagedate = onemessage["timestamp"] as? String {
    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"
    let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(messagedate)
    curr_message.date = date
   }

where curr_message is of type Message initialised like this :

class Message : NSObject {
var id: String?
var text: String?
var date: NSDate?
var sender: Friend?
}

The problem is that the curr_message.date value is always nil after this if condition executes.

Answer 1

Use "HH" instead of "hh" for dateFormatter.dateFormat.

"hh" is for AM/PM format, "HH" is for 24 hours format, and you have the latter: 17:13:08.