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AppsDev
AppsDev

Reputation: 12499

NSDate from string is always nil

I receive dates as String like this one:

"2016-05-20T12:25:00.0"

I want to get its corresponding NSDate object, and I'm trying this way:

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.s"
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateStr)

where dateStr is like the example I wrote first. I took the dateFormat string from this page, but I get a nil date, what is wrong there?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 142

Answers (2)

Himali Shah
Himali Shah

Reputation: 189

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S"
if let date = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(NSDate()) {
    print(dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date) )  
}

Upvotes: 0

Leo Dabus
Leo Dabus

Reputation: 236295

You have a few problems with your date format. First Y is for weekOfYear, D is for day of year. hh is used for 12 hours format, decimal second you should use capital S and you need to escape the 'T'

You should do as follow:

let dateString = "2016-05-20T12:25:00.0"

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S"
if let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString) {
    print(dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date) )  // "2016-05-20T12:25:00.0\n"
}

Upvotes: 4

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