Converting string to date returns nil swift 4?

Asked Mar 30 '18 at 16:30

Active Mar 30 '18 at 16:44

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I'm trying to get the current date in this format "YYYY MM DD" by doing the following:

let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en")
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy MM dd"
formatter.timeZone = TimeZone.current
let stringDate = formatter.string(from: Date()) //1
let currentDate = formatter.date(from: stringDate)! //2

1- lets assume that today's date is 2018 03 30 in this case stringDate = "2018 03 30" which is fine.

2- here it returns nil even though that I have used the same formatter that converted the current date to this format.

now I tried the code on playground i got the same results as the following screenshot:

what am I doing wrong ??

edited Mar 30 '18 at 16:44

asked Mar 30 '18 at 16:30

Waleed Saad Jebreen

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The above code is working on my machine. What do you have set in your localization settings? – Charles Srstka Mar 30 '18 at 16:34
I bet this will be connected to daylight saving time changes again. What is your time zone? Could it be Jordan? – Sulthan Mar 30 '18 at 16:42
@Sulthan Yes its Jordan ? – Waleed Saad Jebreen Mar 30 '18 at 16:45
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See https://stackoverflow.com/a/36332291/669586 which I answered exactly two years ago. – Sulthan Mar 30 '18 at 16:47
@Sulthan Many thanks man it worked now :) – Waleed Saad Jebreen Mar 30 '18 at 16:54
@WaleedSaadJebreen I think the easist fix could be `formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(secondsFromGMT: TimeZone.current.secondsFromGMT())` but I am not able to reproduce it on my machine so I cannot test. Basically you have to remove the use of default time zone which contains the Daylight saving time information. – Sulthan Mar 30 '18 at 16:55

Converting string to date returns nil swift 4?

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