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How to convert a string UTC date to NSDate in Swift

I'm getting UTC string dates that look like this "2015-10-17T00:00:00.000Z" and want to convert them to an NSDate in this format "October 12th 2015 11:19:12 am"

This is the route that I'm trying but I can't seem to get the right dateFormat.

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = //can't seem to get this right
dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(name: "UTC")
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString("2015-10-17T00:00:00.000Z")
Solution

  • I think this should work

    let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"
let localDate = formatter.date(from: date)