Converting calendar date to the correct date

Question

I am working on an application that creates alerts with calendar. I can correctly set alarms on correct dates. For example, I set an alarm for 4th of May 2017 1 PM.

When, I try to get the calendar event it returns me some other date in UTC.

As you can see, it returns me 10 AM on same day with UTC. I am wondering how can I get the exact date when I try to get it from calendar.

You need to correct the timezone, perhaps setting timezone in your custom calendar may help. — NeverHopeless, May 04 '17 at 07:51
This should help, you just need to convert the date to your current timezone: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29392874/converting-utc-date-format-to-local-nsdate — Sean Lintern, May 04 '17 at 07:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '17 at 08:04

You just need to convert UTC to your local timezone.

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"UTC"]];
NSDate *date1 = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2017-05-04 10:00:00"];

// change to a readable time format and change to local time zone
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];
NSString *strCurrentLocalTimezoneDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date1];

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 04 '17 at 08:12

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Date always takes current time zone until we changed other.If we print the Date it might be showing different but actually it takes current.

answered May 04 '17 at 08:12

Shabbir Ahmad

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 04 '17 at 08:03

// except this code you may have to set timeZone as well.

NSDateFormatter *format = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[format setDateFormat:@"MMM-dd-yyyy"];

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

NSString *dateString = [format stringFromDate:now];
    NSLog(@"%@",dateString);

Converting calendar date to the correct date

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