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puks1978
puks1978

Reputation: 3697

Convert dateFromString to another format - SWIFT

Sorry if this has been asked before.

I have a date from MySQL populating a tableview in Swift. I am converting the MySQL date to NSDate

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
let dateString = "\(dateLabelSource)"
if let dateAdded = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
{
    self.dateLabel.text = "\(dateAdded)"
}

This produces the correct date but now I need to change the output to read more like:

Monday 7 September 2015

but can't work out how to do this.

Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 255

Answers (3)

Mousavian
Mousavian

Reputation: 1475

Use this code to format date:

let dateFmt: NSDateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFmt.dateFormat = "EEEE d MMMM yyyy"
dateFmt.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US") // If you consider to not localise date
println(dateFmt.stringFromDate(dateAdded))

Upvotes: 0

Praveen Amarasinghe
Praveen Amarasinghe

Reputation: 1

This will Help

var formatter: NSDateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "EEEE d MMMM yyyy"
let stringDate: String = formatter.stringFromDate(NSDate())
println(stringDate)

Upvotes: 0

Mr Beardsley
Mr Beardsley

Reputation: 3863

This should produce the output you want. Note: NSDateFormatters are expensive objects to create, so it is best to reuse a single instance as much as you can.

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
let dateString = "\(dateLabelSource)"
if let dateAdded = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
{
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE d MMMM yyyy"
    self.dateLabel.text = "\(dateFormatter.stringFromDate(dateAdded))"
}

The Data Formatting Guide has a section dealing with formatting dates. Data Formatting Guide

Upvotes: 2

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