Monday, 23 June 2014

         Date Time Converion According to  TimeZone in iOS



Local timezone to other time zone:

//creating object of NSDateFormatter
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

//setting format for date
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];

//setting timezone for dateFormatter
dateFormatter.timeZone=[NSTimeZone localTimeZone];

//getting localdate from system
NSString *localDate =[dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
//Convert from string to date
NSDate *serverDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:localDate];

//setting the dateformatter timezone according to which time needed
dateFormatter.timeZone=[[NSTimeZone alloc] initWithName:@"America/New_York"];

//getting date in desired formate
NSString *date =[dateFormatter stringFromDate:serverDate];




Other timezone to local time zone:
NSString *serverDateString=@"2014-06-19 10:50:10";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormatter.timeZone=[[NSTimeZone alloc] initWithName:@"America/New_York"];
dateFormatter.dateFormat=@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
//Convert from string to date
NSDate *dateObject = [dateFormatter dateFromString:serverDateString];
//setting dateformatter to according to local timezone
dateFormatter.timeZone= [NSTimeZone localTimeZone];
//Now back from date to string
NSLog(@"From date to string: %@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:dateObject]);
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"hh:mm a"];
NSString *time =[dateFormatter stringFromDate:dateObject];

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