NSString Date to NSDate

Question

NSString Date to NSDate in iOS not displaying proper details. I have NSString date is :

NSString *strFinal = @"2016-10-20 12:00:00";

I am following below method to convert NSString to NSDate

  NSString *strFinal = @"2016-10-20 12:00:00";


    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

//    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"];

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"];

    NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];

    dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:strFinal];

and my out put is :

string date is : 2016-10-20 12:00:00
NSDate is: 2016-10-19 18:30:00 +0000

it generates different date and different format from NSString i want the same NSDate.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

`[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"]];` — Bhavin Ramani, Nov 10 '16 at 09:39
Hello Bhavin, Thanks for reply. i got this i need to use UTC but i am still getting +0000 after NSDate convertion. Can we remove this also? — puja, Nov 10 '16 at 09:42
why you are doing this. NSLog(@"date %@",dateFromString); if you will do this then get date 2016-01-19 18:30:00 +0000. this is right — Narendra Pandey, Nov 10 '16 at 09:45
`[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];` output: `2016-10-20 12:00:00 +0000`. — Ashok R, Nov 10 '16 at 09:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '16 at 09:46

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try this :

dateFormatter.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"];

answered Nov 10 '16 at 09:46

KKRocks

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 10 '16 at 09:47

You have problems with time zone and it can be solved by adding this line of code:

[dateformatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"]];

You can also set TimeZone by:

[dateformatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]];

OR

[dateformatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];

OR

[dateformatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"]];

NSString Date to NSDate

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