How to convert the each date components to particular date format in swift 2

Question

I can obtain the individual date components as:

let dateString = String(dataModel.dateCompletedDay) + String(dataModel.dateCompletedMonth) + String(dataModel.dateCompletedYear)
print(dateString)
//2532016

Now how can i to convert it to DD/MM/YYYY format?

Use this `let dateString = String(dataModel.dateCompletedDay) + "/" + String(dataModel.dateCompletedMonth) + "/" + String(dataModel.dateCompletedYear)` — Aditya Srivastava, Aug 15 '17 at 07:11
@AdityaSrivastava now the format should work as 25/03/2016? does you answer meet that??It should automatically append 0 in month and day if it is one digit. — jenny sam, Aug 15 '17 at 07:13
@jennysam `dataModel.dateCompletedMonth` what will this return. Int? — Aditya Srivastava, Aug 15 '17 at 07:16
@jennysam Leading zeros are not present in Int. `dataModel.dateCompletedMonth` probably returns 3 for 3rd month not 03. Please check since there is no point of writing extra code in your case. — Aditya Srivastava, Aug 15 '17 at 07:21
@jennysam try this link for 2 digit https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25566581/leading-zeros-for-int-in-swift — Hitesh, Aug 15 '17 at 07:21
@jennysam try this for day and month let stringDate = String(format: "%02d", dataModel.dateCompletedMonth) — Hitesh, Aug 15 '17 at 07:25

vadian · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-15T08:01:47.333

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I suggest to use Calendar, DateComponents and DateFormatter (Swift 3)

let components = DateComponents(year:dataModel.dateCompletedYear, month: dataModel.dateCompletedMonth, day: dataModel.dateCompletedDay)
let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)!
let date = calendar.date(from: components)!
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy"
let dateString = formatter.string(from: date)

Additionally this is a simple solution which is supposed to work also in Swift 2

let dateString = String(format: "%02ld/%02ld/%ld", dataModel.dateCompletedDay, dataModel.dateCompletedMonth, dataModel.dateCompletedYear)

edited Aug 15 '17 at 08:01

answered Aug 15 '17 at 07:18

vadian

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Can this be in swift 2 please? – jenny sam Aug 15 '17 at 07:44
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Sorry, I don't use Swift 2 anymore for a long time and it's highly recommended to update. Swift 4 is raring to go. – vadian Aug 15 '17 at 07:47

How to convert the each date components to particular date format in swift 2

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