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Converting calendar date to the correct date

I am working on an application that creates alerts with calendar. I can correctly set alarms on correct dates. For example, I set an alarm for 4th of May 2017 1 PM.

When, I try to get the calendar event it returns me some other date in UTC.

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As you can see, it returns me 10 AM on same day with UTC. I am wondering how can I get the exact date when I try to get it from calendar.

Solution

  • You just need to convert UTC to your local timezone.

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"UTC"]];
NSDate *date1 = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2017-05-04 10:00:00"];

// change to a readable time format and change to local time zone
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone localTimeZone]];
NSString *strCurrentLocalTimezoneDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date1];