Set NSDate to current year from String without year, Swift

Question

I have a string that I am pulling from the web in the format "Sat, Jan 30 @ 11:00 AM" and want to convert this to an NSDate. I am able to do so with the code below, but the year defaults to 2000.

How can I set the year to the current year for my NSDate?

                    var dateString = "Sat, Jan 30 @ 11:00 AM"

                    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

                    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, MMM dd @ hh:mm a"

                    let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)

                    //date output is 2000-01-30 19:00:00 +0000

I believe that this is the Objective-C answer: "a date string without year to NSDate with year"

Thanks!

Answer 1

Not sure if that's the best way to do it, since I am kinda new to programming. But I would do something like that, works fine I guess (I know the order is kinda confusing, but I just did this in a few minutes without making the code "look good" ^^):

var dateString = "Sat, Jan 30 @ 11:00 AM"

    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "YYYY EEE, MMM dd @ hh:mm a"

    //let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)

    let currentDate = NSDate()
    let newFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    newFormatter.dateFormat = "YYYY"

    let YearString = newFormatter.stringFromDate(currentDate)
    let newDateString = String(YearString + " " + dateString)
    let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(newDateString)
    print(date)