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iOS - How to get raw offset for timezone?

How do I get the raw offset in milliseconds for Coordinated Universal Time in iOS programmatically?

Solution 
  • NSInteger millisecondsFromGMT = 1000 * [[NSTimeZone localTimeZone] secondsFromGMT];

    In Swift 3 and Swift 4:

    let millisecondsFromGmt = 1000 * TimeZone.autoupdatingCurrent.secondsFromGMT()