How do I take a date and extract the day in iOS"

Question

I have a webservice that returns the date in this format:

2013-04-14

How do i figure out what day this corresponds to?

Answer 1

Swift 3:

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let datFromat = DateFormatter()

datFormat.dateFormat = "EEEE"

let name = datFormat.string(from: Date())

Bonus: If you want to set your own date template instead of using Date() above:

let datFormat = DateFormatter()

datFormat.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"

let thisDate = datFormat.date(from: "2016-10-13T18:00:00-0400")

Then call the 1st code after this.