UIDatePicker not showing expected time

Question

I'm very new to Swift and XCode. When choosing the time in the UIDatePicker, the time always seems to be 17 hours off. I can't find anything in the Apple Documentation explaining why this would happen.

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var timePicker: UIDatePicker!

    @IBAction func startButton(_ sender: UIButton) {
        print(timePicker.date)
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }

}

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comment by @PJayRushton, you get a UTC date printed.

In order to get your local timezone, you can modify your printing code to something like:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var timePicker: UIDatePicker!

    @IBAction func startButton(_ sender: UIButton) {
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone.current
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm" // or whatever other format you want
        print(dateFormatter.string(from: timePicker!.date))
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }
}