Datepicker picks wrong date

Question

I am converting date to day, but if I just println() the current selected date in the datepicker, I get wrong time and wrong date.

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Answer 1

This is fine because the date picker uses its local time but it stores UTC time. It means your local time offset is -5h. You can do as follow to extract the right date and time from it:

extension NSDate {
    var localizedDescription: String {
       return descriptionWithLocale(NSLocale.currentLocale()) ?? ""
    }
}

println(chosenDate.localizedDescription)

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Swift 3 or later

extension Date {
    var localizedDescription: String {
        return description(with: .current)
    }
}

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Date().localizedDescription  // "Monday, October 16, 2017 at 2:24:11 AM Brasilia Summer Time"