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methi1999
methi1999

Reputation: 25

NSDate returning GMT time

I live in India which is +5.30 hours GMT. When I print the system time, it shows me the current time. But when I use this code, the GMT time is used!

Code example:

NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSDate *tomorrow = [now dateByAddingTimeInterval:24 * 60 * 60];
NSDate *dayaftertomorrow = [now dateByAddingTimeInterval:48 * 60 * 60];

NSLog(@"Tomorrow, the date will be %@" , tomorrow);
NSLog(@"Day after tomorrow, the date will be %@" , dayaftertomorrow);

The system time now is 11:34 P.M. but the console prints out :

2013-06-05 23:35:02.577 prog1[1601:303] Tomorrow, the date will be 2013-06-06 18:05:02 +0000 2013-06-05 23:35:02.578 prog1[1601:303] Day after tomorrow, the date will be 2013-06-07 18:05:02 +0000

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1500

Answers (2)

mfaerevaag
mfaerevaag

Reputation: 730

You can do this with a NSDateFormatter:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"]];

NSLog(@"Now: %@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]);

Other timezones can be found with NSTimeZone like this:

NSLog(@"Timezones: %@", [NSTimeZone knownTimeZoneNames]);

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 2

michal
michal

Reputation: 1806

After you create you NSDate object, you have to use the NSDateFormatter method stringFromDate: to generate a date string localized to a particular timezone. If you just do a straight NSLog() on the NSDate object it will show the date as GMT by default

Upvotes: 4

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