Getting next date when trying to convert NSDate to String

Question

I have this date in actuall

2016-09-03 19:00:00 +0000

Now I am trying to convert it to String using a specific format like below

But what I am getting in return is not as desired. the formatter is adding on day to the given date like below

Is this standard behaviour ?

timeZone is important when your are converting date , pls set time zone and check again — Prashant Tukadiya, Sep 05 '16 at 06:40
Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6229024/nsdate-format-outputting-wrong-date — diiN__________, Sep 05 '16 at 06:41
no need to deal with timeZone, when using NSDateFormatter local timezone it is used by default — Leo Dabus, Sep 05 '16 at 06:41

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '16 at 06:40

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When you hover over the date, you can see that it is showing UTC, whereas the formatter is automatically converting this to a local date. If your timezone is 5 hours ahead of UTC, then it will be the next day locally from that time.

answered Sep 05 '16 at 06:40

Michael

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '16 at 06:40

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This is not standard behaviour. This happen because of the time zone difference. Set time zone proper

Set the timezone.

formatter.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation: @"GMT"];

answered Sep 05 '16 at 06:40

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Getting next date when trying to convert NSDate to String

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