NSDate set timezone in swift

Question

how can i return a NSDate in a predefined time zone from a string

let responseString = \"2015-8-17 GMT+05:30\"
var dFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dFormatter.         


        

Answer 1

If you always have the same time zone for the input string, you can create two date formatters to output the local time zone (or a specified one):

let timeFormatterGet = DateFormatter()
timeFormatterGet.dateFormat = "h:mm a"
timeFormatterGet.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "PST")

let timeFormatterPrint = DateFormatter()
timeFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "h:mm a"
// timeFormatterPrint.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "EST") // if you want to specify timezone for output, otherwise leave this line blank and it will default to devices timezone

if let date = timeFormatterGet.date(from: "3:30 PM") {
    print(timeFormatterPrint.string(from: date)). // "6:30 PM" if device in EST
} else {
   print("There was an error decoding the string")
}