Am learning swift and am struck in converting the date String to NSDate to string. Am getting the date string in this format &quot;Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:45:17 +0000&quot;. I need to show the date in the MM-dd-yyyy format. I tried the following code but, it returns &quot;null&quot;.

    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = &quot;MM-dd-yyyy&quot;
    dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.MediumStyle
    let dateObj = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString!)
    print(&quot;Dateobj: \(dateObj)&quot;)

Can anyone please help where am going wrong? Looking forward the help. Thanks in advance.            



How to convert string to date to string in Swift iOS?

Am working in an iPhone app with using the NSDateFormatter. Am getting the time from the webservice like `&quot;00:00:00&quot;, &quot;16:00:00&quot;,&quot;15:30:00&quot; and so on`. I need to convert these time to 
if the time is `&quot;00:00:00&quot; to &quot;12 AM&quot;`, if the time is `&quot;16:00:00&quot; to &quot;4 PM&quot;`, if the time is &quot;15:30:00&quot; to &quot;3.30 PM&quot;. I have used the below code to this but when i have pass `&quot;16:00:00&quot; the date returns null`.
     
     NSString *dats1 = @&quot;16:00:00&quot;;
     NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter3 = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
     [dateFormatter3 setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];  
     [dateFormatter3 setDateFormat:@&quot;hh:mm:ss&quot;]; 
     NSDate *date1 = [dateFormatter3 dateFromString:dats1];
     NSLog(@&quot;date1 : %@&quot;, date1); **// Here returning (null)**
                    
     NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
     [formatter setDateFormat:@&quot;hh:mm a&quot;];
     NSLog(@&quot;Current Date: %@&quot;, [formatter stringFromDate:date1]); **// Here also returning (null)**
     [formatter release];

When am passing &quot;00:00:00&quot; it is returning &quot;12 AM&quot; correctly. Can anyone please help me to solve this issue? Thanks in advance.

How to get the time in am/pm format iphone NSDateFormatter?

im using xcode 4.5(4G182) with iOS 6. NSDateFormatter show wrong year in iOS 6, how to solve?

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@&quot;YYYY-MM-dd&quot;];
    NSString *str = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
    NSLog(@&quot;%@ == %@&quot;,str,[[dateFormatter dateFromString:str] description]);

it print out &quot;**2012**-09-14 == **2011**-09-13 16:00:00 +0000&quot;

NSDateFormatter show wrong year

How will I convert this datetime from the date?

&gt; From this: 2016-02-29 12:24:26  
 **to: Feb 29, 2016**

So far, this is my code and it returns a nil value:

    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = &quot;MM-dd-yyyy&quot;
    dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: &quot;UTC&quot;)
    let date: NSDate? = dateFormatter.dateFromString(&quot;2016-02-29 12:24:26&quot;)
    print(date)

Date Format in Swift

How can I convert this string `&quot;2016-04-14T10:44:00+0000&quot;` into an `NSDate` and keep only the year, month, day, hour?

The `T` in the middle of it really throws off what I am used to when working with dates.

Convert string to date in Swift

It seems that `NSDateFormatter` has a &quot;feature&quot; that bites you unexpectedly:  If you do a simple &quot;fixed&quot; format operation such as:

    NSDateFormatter* fmt = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [fmt setDateFormat:@&quot;yyyyMMddHHmmss&quot;];
    NSString* dateStr = [fmt stringFromDate:someDate];
    [fmt release];

Then it works fine in the US and most locales UNTIL ... someone with their phone set to a 24-hour region sets the 12/24 hour switch in settings to 12.  Then the above starts tacking &quot;AM&quot; or &quot;PM&quot; onto the end of the resulting string.

(See, eg, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/143075/nsdateformatter-am-i-doing-something-wrong-or-is-this-a-bug)

(And see https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1480/_index.html)

Apparently Apple has declared this to be &quot;BAD&quot; -- Broken As Designed, and they aren&#39;t going to fix it.

The circumvention is apparently to set the locale of the date formatter for a specific region, generally the US, but this is a bit messy:

    NSLocale *loc = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@&quot;en_US&quot;];
    [df setLocale: loc];
    [loc release];

Not too bad in onsies-twosies, but I&#39;m dealing with about ten different apps, and the first one I look at has 43 instances of this scenario.

So any clever ideas for a macro/overridden class/whatever to minimize the effort to change everything, without making the code to obscure?  (My first instinct is to override NSDateFormatter with a version that would set the locale in the init method.  Requires changing two lines -- the alloc/init line and the added import.)

##Added

This is what I&#39;ve come up with so far -- seems to work in all scenarios:


    @implementation BNSDateFormatter

    -(id)init {
	static NSLocale* en_US_POSIX = nil;
	NSDateFormatter* me = [super init];
	if (en_US_POSIX == nil) {
		en_US_POSIX = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@&quot;en_US_POSIX&quot;];
	}
	[me setLocale:en_US_POSIX];
	return me;
    }

    @end

##Bounty!
I&#39;ll award the bounty to the best (legitimate) suggestion/critique I see by mid-day Tuesday. [See below -- deadline extended.]

##Update
Re OMZ&#39;s proposal, here is what I&#39;m finding --

Here is the category version -- h file:


    #import &lt;Foundation/Foundation.h&gt;


    @interface NSDateFormatter (Locale)
    - (id)initWithSafeLocale;
    @end

Category m file:


    #import &quot;NSDateFormatter+Locale.h&quot;


    @implementation NSDateFormatter (Locale)

    - (id)initWithSafeLocale {
	static NSLocale* en_US_POSIX = nil;
	self = [super init];
	if (en_US_POSIX == nil) {
		en_US_POSIX = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@&quot;en_US_POSIX&quot;];
	}
	NSLog(@&quot;Category&#39;s locale: %@ %@&quot;, en_US_POSIX.description, [en_US_POSIX localeIdentifier]);
	[self setLocale:en_US_POSIX];
	return self;	
    }

    @end

The code:

	
	NSDateFormatter* fmt;
	NSString* dateString;
	NSDate* date1;
	NSDate* date2;
	NSDate* date3;
	NSDate* date4;
	
	fmt = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] initWithSafeLocale];
	[fmt setDateFormat:@&quot;yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss&quot;];
	dateString = [fmt stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
	NSLog(@&quot;dateString = %@&quot;, dateString);
	date1 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 12:34:56&quot;];
	NSLog(@&quot;date1 = %@&quot;, date1.description);
	date2 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 22:34:56&quot;];
	NSLog(@&quot;date2 = %@&quot;, date2.description);
	date3 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 12:34:56PM&quot;];	
	NSLog(@&quot;date3 = %@&quot;, date3.description);
	date4 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 12:34:56 PM&quot;];	
	NSLog(@&quot;date4 = %@&quot;, date4.description);
	[fmt release];
	
	fmt = [[BNSDateFormatter alloc] init];
	[fmt setDateFormat:@&quot;yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss&quot;];
	dateString = [fmt stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
	NSLog(@&quot;dateString = %@&quot;, dateString);
	date1 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 12:34:56&quot;];
	NSLog(@&quot;date1 = %@&quot;, date1.description);
	date2 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 22:34:56&quot;];
	NSLog(@&quot;date2 = %@&quot;, date2.description);
	date3 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 12:34:56PM&quot;];	
	NSLog(@&quot;date3 = %@&quot;, date3.description);
	date4 = [fmt dateFromString:@&quot;2001-05-05 12:34:56 PM&quot;];	
	NSLog(@&quot;date4 = %@&quot;, date4.description);
	[fmt release];

The result:


    2011-07-11 17:44:43.243 DemoApp[160:307] Category&#39;s locale: &lt;__NSCFLocale: 0x11a820&gt; en_US_POSIX
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.257 DemoApp[160:307] dateString = 2011-07-11 05:44:43 PM
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.264 DemoApp[160:307] date1 = (null)
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.272 DemoApp[160:307] date2 = (null)
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.280 DemoApp[160:307] date3 = (null)
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.298 DemoApp[160:307] date4 = 2001-05-05 05:34:56 PM +0000
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.311 DemoApp[160:307] Extended class&#39;s locale: &lt;__NSCFLocale: 0x11a820&gt; en_US_POSIX
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.336 DemoApp[160:307] dateString = 2011-07-11 17:44:43
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.352 DemoApp[160:307] date1 = 2001-05-05 05:34:56 PM +0000
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.369 DemoApp[160:307] date2 = 2001-05-06 03:34:56 AM +0000
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.380 DemoApp[160:307] date3 = (null)
    2011-07-11 17:44:43.392 DemoApp[160:307] date4 = (null)

The phone [make that an iPod Touch] is set to Great Britain, with the 12/24 switch set to 12.  There&#39;s a clear difference in the two results, and I judge the category version to be wrong.  Note that the log in the category version IS getting executed (and stops placed in the code are hit), so it&#39;s not simply a case of the code somehow not getting used.

##Bounty update:
Since I haven&#39;t gotten any applicable replies yet I&#39;ll extend the bounty deadline for another day or two.

Bounty ends in 21 hours -- it&#39;ll go to whoever makes the most effort to help, even if the answer isn&#39;t really useful in my case.

##A curious observation

Modified the category implementation slightly:

    #import &quot;NSDateFormatter+Locale.h&quot;

    @implementation NSDateFormatter (Locale)

    - (id)initWithSafeLocale {
	static NSLocale* en_US_POSIX2 = nil;
	self = [super init];
	if (en_US_POSIX2 == nil) {
		en_US_POSIX2 = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@&quot;en_US_POSIX&quot;];
	}
	NSLog(@&quot;Category&#39;s locale: %@ %@&quot;, en_US_POSIX2.description, [en_US_POSIX2 localeIdentifier]);
	[self setLocale:en_US_POSIX2];
	NSLog(@&quot;Category&#39;s object: %@ and object&#39;s locale: %@ %@&quot;, self.description, self.locale.description, [self.locale localeIdentifier]);
	return self;    
    }

    @end

Basically just changed the name of the static locale variable (in case there was some conflict with the static declared in the subclass) and added the extra NSLog.  But look what that NSLog prints:

    2011-07-15 16:35:24.322 DemoApp[214:307] Category&#39;s locale: &lt;__NSCFLocale: 0x160550&gt; en_US_POSIX
    2011-07-15 16:35:24.338 DemoApp[214:307] Category&#39;s object: &lt;NSDateFormatter: 0x160d90&gt; and object&#39;s locale: &lt;__NSCFLocale: 0x12be70&gt; en_GB
    2011-07-15 16:35:24.345 DemoApp[214:307] dateString = 2011-07-15 04:35:24 PM
    2011-07-15 16:35:24.370 DemoApp[214:307] date1 = (null)
    2011-07-15 16:35:24.378 DemoApp[214:307] date2 = (null)
    2011-07-15 16:35:24.390 DemoApp[214:307] date3 = (null)
    2011-07-15 16:35:24.404 DemoApp[214:307] date4 = 2001-05-05 05:34:56 PM +0000

As you can see, the setLocale simply didn&#39;t.  The locale of the formatter is still en_GB.  It appears that there is something &quot;strange&quot; about an init method in a category.

##Final answer

See the [accepted answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/6735644/581994) below.

What is the best way to deal with the NSDateFormatter locale &quot;feechur&quot;?

I basically need to get current date and time separately, formatted as:

&lt;pre&gt;
2009-04-26 
11:06:54
&lt;/pre&gt;

The code below, from another question on the same topic, generates

&lt;pre&gt;
now:        |2009-06-01 23:18:23 +0100| 
dateString: |Jun 01, 2009 23:18| 
parsed:     |2009-06-01 23:18:00 +0100|
&lt;/pre&gt;

This is almost what I&#39;m looking for, but I want to separate the day and time.

    NSDateFormatter *format = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [format setDateFormat:@&quot;MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm&quot;];
    	
    NSDate *now = [[NSDate alloc] init];
    
    NSString *dateString = [format stringFromDate:now];
    	
    NSDateFormatter *inFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [inFormat setDateFormat:@&quot;MMM dd, yyyy&quot;];
    
    NSDate *parsed = [inFormat dateFromString:dateString];
    	
    NSLog(@&quot;\n&quot;
    &quot;now:        |%@| \n&quot;
    &quot;dateString: |%@| \n&quot;
    &quot;parsed:     |%@|&quot;, now, dateString, parsed);

Formatting NSDate into particular styles for both year, month, day, and hour, minute, seconds

It&#39;s easy enough to get the ISO 8601 date string (for example, `2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00`) in PHP via `date(&#39;c&#39;)`, but how does one get it in Objective-C (iPhone)? Is there a similarly short way to do it?

Here&#39;s the *long* way I found to do it:

    NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = @&quot;yyyy-MM-dd&#39;T&#39;HH:mm:ssZ&quot;;

    NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
    NSString *formattedDateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:now];
    NSLog(@&quot;ISO-8601 date: %@&quot;, formattedDateString);

    // Output: ISO-8601 date: 2013-04-27T13:27:50-0700

It seems an awful lot of rigmarole for something so central.



How do I get an ISO 8601 date on iOS?

Seems like a simple thing but I can&#39;t seem to find a way to do it.

It would be great to see a couple different methods.

iPhone OS: How do I create an NSDate for a specific date?

I want to get the day, month and year components of `NSDate` in integer form i.e. if the date is 1/2/1988 then I should get 1, 2 and 1988 separately as an integer. How can I do this in iOS? I found the similar question but the method `descriptionWithCalendarFormat`: gives a warning and seems to be deprecated by now.

How to get NSDate day, month and year in integer format?

I know that the NSDateformatter suite of functionality is a boon for mankind, but at the same time it is very confusing to me. I hope you can help me out.

Somewhere in my code, there is an int representing a month. So: 1 would be January, 2 February, etc.

In my user interface, I would like to display this integer as proper month name. Moreover, it should adhere to the locale of the device.

Thank you for your insights


In the mean time, I have done the following:


    int monthNumber = 11
    NSString * dateString = [NSString stringWithFormat: @&quot;%d&quot;, monthNumber];
    
    NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@&quot;MM&quot;];
    NSDate* myDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];
    [dateFormatter release];
    	
    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@&quot;MMMM&quot;];
    NSString *stringFromDate = [formatter stringFromDate:myDate];
    [formatter release];


is this the way to do it? It seems a bit wordy.






iOS: How to get a proper Month name from a number?

What is exact difference between &#39;YYYY&#39; and &#39;yyyy&#39;. I read in [this link][1], it states that 

&gt; A common mistake is to use YYYY. yyyy specifies the calendar year
&gt; whereas YYYY specifies the year (of “Week of Year”), used in the ISO
&gt; year-week calendar. In most cases, yyyy and YYYY yield the same
&gt; number, however they may be different. Typically you should use the
&gt; calendar year.

But when I try to use 

    NSString *stringDate = @&quot;Feb 28, 2013 05:30pm&quot;;
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@&quot;MMM dd, yyyy hh:mma&quot;];
    NSDate *date=[dateFormatter dateFromString:stringDate];
    NSLog(@&quot;Date 1 : %@&quot;,date); //2013-02-28 12:00:00 +0000
    
    NSString *stringDatee = @&quot;Feb 28, 2013 05:30pm&quot;;
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatterr = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatterr setDateFormat:@&quot;MMM dd, YYYY hh:mma&quot;];
    NSDate *datee=[dateFormatterr dateFromString:stringDatee];
    NSLog(@&quot;Date 2 : %@&quot;,datee); //2013-01-05 12:00:00 +0000
    
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@&quot;MMM dd, YYYY hh:mma&quot;];
    NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:datee];
    NSLog(@&quot;date 3 : %@&quot;, dateString); //Jan 05, 2013 05:30PM

As here, result to `date` and `datee` different, which I understood, but why result of date 2 and date 3 are different? As I am creating date from string and reversing same to string again, but output mismatches?

Has anybody knows reason about same?. Though it specifies week of year, still I should get result same.

Thanks..

EDIT :-

If I code

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@&quot;MMM dd, YYYY hh:mma&quot;];
    NSString *dateString = [dateFormatterr stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
    NSLog(@&quot;date: %@&quot;, dateString); //Feb 28, 2013 04:37PM

If results me proper result, but same which I pass as string to date I get `2013-01-05 12:00:00 +0000`, check date 2 of NSLog, Strange result, why?

  [1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/DataFormatting/Articles/dfDateFormatting10_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002369-SW1

Difference between &#39;YYYY&#39; and &#39;yyyy&#39; in NSDateFormatter

I am trying to convert an am/pm format time to a 24 hour format time

    6:35 PM to 18:35

I tried this piece of code on playground but it doesn&#39;t seem to
work if I put the time alone

    let dateAsString = &quot;02/12/15, 6:35 PM&quot;
    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = &quot;HH&quot;
    let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateAsString) //returns nil


Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

Xcode Swift am/pm time to 24 hour format

I am trying to convert a `NSDate` to a `String` and then Change Format. But when I pass `NSDate` to `String` it is producing whitespace.

     let formatter = DateFormatter()
     let myString = (String(describing: date))
     formatter.dateFormat = &quot;yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss&quot;
     let yourDate: Date? = formatter.date(from: myString)
     formatter.dateFormat = &quot;dd-MMM-yyyy&quot;
     print(yourDate)


Convert NSDate to String in iOS Swift

I have some code I use to sort calendar dates that looks like this: 

    #if !(TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR)
        NSString *formatString = [NSDateFormatter dateFormatFromTemplate:@&quot;HH:mm dd MMM yyyy&quot; options:0
                                                                  locale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
        [fmt setDateFormat:formatString];
    #else
        [fmt setDateFormat:@&quot;HH:mm dd MMM yyyy&quot;];
    #endif

If I run it in the simulator all is ok. If I run it on the device I get this sarcastic debug message. 

&gt; **2012-09-19 22:40:13.972 APPNAME [4923:907] *** -[__NSCFCalendar
&gt; components:fromDate:]: date cannot be nil 

&gt; I mean really, what do you
&gt; think that operation is supposed to mean with a nil date?
&gt; 
&gt;  An exception has been avoided for now.
&gt; 
&gt; A few of these errors are going to be
&gt; reported with this complaint, then further violations will simply
&gt; silently do whatever random thing results from the nil. Here is the
&gt; backtrace where this occurred this time (some frames may be missing
&gt; due to compiler optimizations):

You have to laugh at it but I&#39;m not sure what is wrong with my `dateFormatFromTemplate:` code. Any help would be appreciated. 

*Running Xcode V 4.5 btw* 

________
UPDATE:

&gt; Backtrace:
&gt; 
&gt; 	0   CoreFoundation                      0x39ff0e55 &lt;redacted&gt; + 84 	
   1
&gt; APPNAME                             0x00040be1
&gt; -[MeetingsViewController dateAtBeginningOfDayForDate:] + 140

So I guess things are going bad in my `dateAtBeginningOfDayForDate` method. Which looks like this:

    /*
     Break down a given NSDate to its bare components for sorting
     */
    - (NSDate *)dateAtBeginningOfDayForDate:(NSDate *)inputDate
    {
        // Use the user&#39;s current calendar and time zone
        NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
        NSTimeZone *timeZone = [NSTimeZone systemTimeZone];
        [calendar setTimeZone:timeZone];
        
        // Selectively convert the date components (year, month, day) of the input date
        NSDateComponents *dateComps = [calendar components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:inputDate];
        
        // Set the time components manually
        [dateComps setHour:0];
        [dateComps setMinute:0];
        [dateComps setSecond:0];
        
        // Convert back
        NSDate *beginningOfDay = [calendar dateFromComponents:dateComps];
        return beginningOfDay;
    }

I use this method to break down a given NSDate to its&#39; core components so that I can sort them all more efficiently. However, my app has to be international which is the reason behind using `NSLocale` to formate the date output. From what it seems I will need to alter my `dateAtBeginningOfDayForDate` to work internationally as well. 

What kind of sarcastic error is this iOS?

I have a basic method which gets the current time and sets it in a string. However, how can I get it to format the current date &amp; time in a UNIX since-1970 timestamp format?

Here is my code:

    NSDate *currentTime = [NSDate date];
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@&quot;hh-mm&quot;];
    NSString *resultString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate: currentTime];

Is it possible to use `NSDateFormatter` to change the &#39;resultString&#39; into a timestamp?

Get current NSDate in timestamp format

What setDateFormat option for NSDateFormatter do I use to get a month-day&#39;s ordinal suffix?

e.g. the snippet below currently produces:&lt;br&gt;
3:11 PM Saturday August 15

What must I change to get:&lt;br&gt;
3:11 PM Saturday August 15**th**

    NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
    [dateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@&quot;h:mm a EEEE MMMM d&quot;];
    NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];	
    NSLog(@&quot;%@&quot;, dateString);

In PHP, I&#39;d use this for the case above:&lt;br&gt;
`&lt;?php echo date(&#39;h:m A l F jS&#39;) ?&gt;`

Is there an NSDateFormatter equivalent to the **S** option in the PHP formatting string?

Ordinal Month-day Suffix Option for NSDateFormatter setDateFormat

I want to convert server UTC time to local time and vice-versa.
Here is my code..

    var isTimeFromServer = true
    var time:String!
    var period:String!
    let timeString = &quot;6:59 AM&quot; //Current UTC time
    
    if isTimeFromServer {
        
        let index = timeString.index(timeString.startIndex, offsetBy: 5)
        let twelve = timeString.substring(to: index)
        
        var dateString:String!
        
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = &quot;H:mm&quot;
        let date12 = dateFormatter.date(from: twelve)!
        
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = &quot;h:mm a&quot;
        let date22 = dateFormatter.string(from: date12)
        
        //print(date22)
        dateString = date22
        //print(&quot;dateString=\(dateString)&quot;)
        
        time = dateString.components(separatedBy: &quot; &quot;)[0]
        period = dateString.components(separatedBy: &quot; &quot;)[1]
        
    }
    else {
        time = timeString.components(separatedBy: &quot; &quot;)[0]
        period = timeString.components(separatedBy: &quot; &quot;)[1]
    }
    
    var hour = Int(time.components(separatedBy: &quot;:&quot;)[0])
    
    hour = period == &quot;AM&quot; ? hour : hour! + 12
    let minute = Int(time.components(separatedBy: &quot;:&quot;)[1])
    let calender = NSCalendar.current
    var datecomponent = DateComponents()
    datecomponent.calendar = calender
    datecomponent.hour = hour
    datecomponent.minute = minute
    
    if !isTimeFromServer {
        // local to UTC
        datecomponent.timeZone = TimeZone.current
    }
    else {
        datecomponent.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: &quot;UTC&quot;)
    }
    
    let date = datecomponent.date
    let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    
    if !isTimeFromServer {
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = &quot;H:mm&quot;
        dateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: &quot;UTC&quot;)
        dateFormatter.string(from: date!)
    }
    else {
        //UTC to local
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = &quot;h:mm a&quot;
        dateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone.current
        dateFormatter.string(from: date!)
    }

I get the local time 

&gt;  o/p: &quot;12:52 PM&quot;

But actual local time and output time difference is 23 minutes.


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