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Tejas Patel
Tejas Patel

Reputation: 870

How to get current date from current timezone from a time server in Swift?

I am working on application where i want to get current date as per the users current timezone. even after user changes date from their device setting menu.

To get the current timezone i have used

let timeZone = TimeZone.current
print(timeZone)

for example here i got 'Asia/Kolkata' and current date is 28-july, now if user changes date (Setting->Date&Time-> off set automatically) to 29-july at that time i got output like 'Asia/Kolkata' date 29-july, but actual date is 28-july. so how can i get current date of this (Asia/Kolkata) timezone.

Note: I want to use this because i need current date of particular timezone if user tries to change date from setting then after i need to get exact date from that timezone.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5705

Answers (3)

Leo Dabus
Leo Dabus

Reputation: 236315

If you need to make sure the date is a valid date you can use a timeserver to return the date based on the device IP, of course this will require an internet connection.

You can create a asynchronous method to return the current date regardless of the user timezone and its timezone as well:

struct Root: Codable {
    let unixtime: Date
    let timezone: String
}

extension URL {
    static let timeIP = URL(string: "http://worldtimeapi.org/api/ip")!
    static func asyncTime(completion: @escaping ((Date?, TimeZone?, Error?)-> Void)) {
        URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: .timeIP) { data, response, error in
            guard let data = data else {
                completion(nil, nil, error)
                return
            }
            do {
                let decoder = JSONDecoder()
                decoder.dateDecodingStrategy = .secondsSince1970
                let root = try decoder.decode(Root.self, from: data)
                completion(root.unixtime, TimeZone(identifier: root.timezone), nil)
            } catch {
                completion(nil, nil, error)
            }
        }.resume()
    }
}

Usage:

URL.asyncTime { date, timezone, error in
    guard let date = date, let timezone = timezone else {
        print("Error:", error ?? "")
        return
    }
    print("Date:", date.description(with: .current))  // "Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 4:27:36 AM Brasilia Standard Time\n"
    print("Timezone:", timezone)   // "Timezone: America/Sao_Paulo (current)\n"
}

Upvotes: 1

Frankenstein
Frankenstein

Reputation: 16341

Here is a simple solution:

let timezone = TimeZone.current
let seconds = TimeInterval(timezone.secondsFromGMT(for: Date()))
let date = Date(timeInterval: seconds, since: Date())
print(date)

You could simply use Date() too, but while using it to display it use DateFormatter. Here's an example:

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
let formattedDate = dateFormatter.string(from: Date())
print(formattedDate)

Upvotes: 5

mflknr
mflknr

Reputation: 130

If you want the current date of the user, you can simply implement let date = Date(). It will return the date used on the users device.

This for example will be displayed for me

let date = Date() // Jul 28, 2020 at 8:22 AM
var timezone = TimeZone.current // Europe/Berlin (current)

Upvotes: -2

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