Date Format in Swift Date Format in Swift ios ios

Date Format in Swift


This may be useful for who want to use dateformater.dateformat;

if you want 12.09.18 you use dateformater.dateformat = "dd.MM.yy"

Wednesday, Sep 12, 2018           --> EEEE, MMM d, yyyy09/12/2018                        --> MM/dd/yyyy09-12-2018 14:11                  --> MM-dd-yyyy HH:mmSep 12, 2:11 PM                   --> MMM d, h:mm aSeptember 2018                    --> MMMM yyyySep 12, 2018                      --> MMM d, yyyyWed, 12 Sep 2018 14:11:54 +0000   --> E, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z2018-09-12T14:11:54+0000          --> yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ12.09.18                          --> dd.MM.yy10:41:02.112                      --> HH:mm:ss.SSS

Here are alternatives:

  • era: G (AD), GGGG (Anno Domini)
  • year: y (2018), yy (18), yyyy (2018)
  • month: M, MM, MMM, MMMM, MMMMM
  • day of month: d, dd
  • day name of week: E, EEEE, EEEEE, EEEEEE


You have to declare 2 different NSDateFormatters, the first to convert the string to a NSDate and the second to print the date in your format.
Try this code:

let dateFormatterGet = NSDateFormatter()dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"let dateFormatterPrint = NSDateFormatter()dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"let date: NSDate? = dateFormatterGet.dateFromString("2016-02-29 12:24:26")print(dateFormatterPrint.stringFromDate(date!))

Swift 3 and higher:

From Swift 3 NSDate class has been changed to Date and NSDateFormatter to DateFormatter.

let dateFormatterGet = DateFormatter()dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"let dateFormatterPrint = DateFormatter()dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"if let date = dateFormatterGet.date(from: "2016-02-29 12:24:26") {    print(dateFormatterPrint.string(from: date))} else {   print("There was an error decoding the string")}


Swift - 5.0

let date = Date()let formate = date.getFormattedDate(format: "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") // Set output formateextension Date {   func getFormattedDate(format: String) -> String {        let dateformat = DateFormatter()        dateformat.dateFormat = format        return dateformat.string(from: self)    }}

Swift - 4.0

2018-02-01T19:10:04+00:00 Convert Feb 01,2018

extension Date {    static func getFormattedDate(string: String , formatter:String) -> String{        let dateFormatterGet = DateFormatter()        dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"        let dateFormatterPrint = DateFormatter()        dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"        let date: Date? = dateFormatterGet.date(from: "2018-02-01T19:10:04+00:00")        print("Date",dateFormatterPrint.string(from: date!)) // Feb 01,2018        return dateFormatterPrint.string(from: date!);    }}