Information about standard time conventions associated with a specific geopolitical region.
SDKs
- iOS 7.0+
- macOS 10.9+
- tvOS 9.0+
- watchOS 2.0+
- Xcode 8.0+
Framework
- Foundation
Overview
Time
defines the behavior of a time zone. Time zone values represent geopolitical regions. Consequently, these values have names for these regions. Time zone values also represent a temporal offset, either plus or minus, from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and an abbreviation (such as PST for Pacific Standard Time).
Time
provides two static functions to get time zone values: current
and autoupdating
. The autoupdating
time zone automatically tracks updates made by the user.
Note that time zone database entries such as “America/Los_Angeles” are IDs, not names. An example of a time zone name is “Pacific Daylight Time”. Although many Time
functions include the word “name”, they refer to IDs.
Cocoa does not provide any API to change the time zone of the computer, or of other applications.