Incorrect time in Date from 12-Hr format Time String - Swift

Question

I have following strings as 12-Hr format time:

let timeFrom = "05:30 AM";
let timeTo = "04:35 PM";

And trying to get date from these for comparison as follows:

let openTime = timeFrom.date(format: "hh:mm a")
let closeTime = timeTo.date(format: "hh:mm a")

With this extension :

extension String
{
    func date(format:String) -> Date?
    {
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        formatter.dateFormat = format
        formatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.local
        return formatter .date(from: self)
    }
}

When I print openTime and closeTime, I'm getting incorrect values in time:

print(openTime)      // 2000-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
print(closeTime)     // 2000-01-01 11:00:00 +0000

Why this is so ? I think it is smoething related to time zone, so I visit NSDateFormatter return wrong date + Swift, but nothing worked for me. If anybody have the solution, please help me. Thank you !

Answer 1

I check with swift 3 and Xcode 8 with small changes its working please check

 let timeFrom = "05:30 AM";
 let timeTo = "04:35 PM";
 let openTime = timeFrom.date(format: "hh:mm a")
 let closeTime = timeTo.date(format: "hh:mm a")
    
 print(openTime)
 print(closeTime)

and make change in extension

extension String{
func date(format:String) -> Date?
{
    let formatter = DateFormatter()
    formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "GMT+0:00")
    formatter.dateFormat = format
    //formatter.timeZone = TimeZone.current //or autoupdatingCurrent
    return formatter .date(from: self)
}}