Get UTC time and local time from NSDate object

Question

In objective-c, the following code results in the UTC date time information using the date API.

NSDate *currentUTCDate = [NSDate date]
         


        

Answer 1

let date = Date() 
print(date) // printed date is UTC 

If you are using playground, use a print statement to check the time. Playground shows local time until you print it. Do not depend on the right side panel of playground.

This code gives date in UTC. If you need the local time, you should call the following extension with timezone as Timezone.current

 extension Date {

   var currentUTCTimeZoneDate: String {
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")
        formatter.amSymbol = "AM"
        formatter.pmSymbol = "PM"
        formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

        return formatter.string(from: self)
    }
}

For UTC time, use it like: Date().currentUTCTimeZoneDate