Get system time zone from NSTimeZone in "GMT 5:30" NSString format

Question

I'm a bit new to objective C. I am trying to get system time zone in string format. I need only "GMT 5:30" in my string .

_devTimezone = (NSString*)[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone];

Answer 1

You can get date description as string and then get required substring as

NSString *myDate = [[NSDate date] descriptionWithLocale:[NSLocale systemLocale]];
myDate=[myDate substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(26, 9)];
NSLog(@"%@",myDate);

u would get GMT+05:30 in log.

****EDITED****

if u are not sure what is index you can set date format and then access the index

NSString *dateStr = @"Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:53:58 +0000";

 // Convert string to date object
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:@"EE, d LLLL yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:dateStr];
NSString *myDate = [date descriptionWithLocale:[NSLocale systemLocale]];
myDate=[myDate substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(26, 9)]; 
NSLog(@"%@",myDate);

Happy Coding.. :)