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ICL1901
ICL1901

Reputation: 7778

Date formatting not working in Swift 3

I'm having a problem with NSDate in a function. Essentially, the formatting is not working, and I need another set of eyes to see what I'm doing wrong.

Code:

 @IBOutlet weak var dateField: NSTextField!

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMMM dd yyyy"
let currentDate = NSDate()

convertedDateString = dateFormatter.string(from:currentDate as Date)
dateField.stringValue = convertedDateString as String

print("convertedDate: ", convertedDateString)
print("dateField.stringValue: ", dateField.stringValue)

Result:

convertedDate: July 25 2016
dateField.stringValue: 7/25/16

Upvotes: 17

Views: 26944

Answers (4)

Muhammad Adnan
Muhammad Adnan

Reputation: 2668

Extension for getting string against date formats

extension Date {
        func toString(format: String) -> String {
            let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
            dateFormatter.dateFormat = format
            return dateFormatter.string(from: self)
        }
    }

Date().toString(format:"H:mm")

Upvotes: 8

Geo B
Geo B

Reputation: 9

The issue i had was not deleting the App from my phone before re installing and testing. The code was working in the simulator but not the phone. Hope this helps

Upvotes: 0

SaRaVaNaN DM
SaRaVaNaN DM

Reputation: 4410

Date().toString() // convert date to string with userdefined format.

extension Date {
        func toString() -> String {
            let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
            dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMMM dd yyyy"
            return dateFormatter.string(from: self)
        }
    }

Upvotes: 32

Zac Kwan
Zac Kwan

Reputation: 5757

This is what i try on the playground and it works.

import Foundation

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMMM dd yyyy"
let currentDate = NSDate()

let convertedDateString = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(currentDate)
var dateField:NSTextField = NSTextField()
dateField.stringValue = convertedDateString as String

print(convertedDateString) //July 25 2016
print(dateField.stringValue) //July 25 2016

The only different was that i change to NSDateFormatter and instead of dateFormatter.string i have dateFormatter.stringFromDate.

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Did you accidentally set some value in the storyboard or xib that you have the NSTextField?

Upvotes: 5

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