Convert NSDate to String with a specific timezone in SWIFT

Question

In my coredatabase I have an \"news\" entity with a NSDate attribute. My app is worldwide.

News was published 2015-09-04 22:15:54 +0000 French hour

Answer 1

Xcode 8 beta • Swift 3.0

Your ISO8601 date format is basic hms without Z. You need to use "xxxx" for "+0000".

"+0000" means UTC time.

let dateString = "2015-09-04 22:15:54 +0000"

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.calendar = Calendar(calendarIdentifier: .ISO8601)
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss xxxx"
dateFormatter.locale = Locale(localeIdentifier: "en_US_POSIX")
if let dateToBeSaved = dateFormatter.date(from: dateString) {
    print(dateToBeSaved)   // "2015-09-04 22:15:54 +0000"
}

If you need some reference to create your date format you can use this: