So ive read there is no feature in the Foundation package that outputs a date only object.
Ive tried variations seen in forum posts. One of them is like this.
But i am confused why the output is always 16:00:00 +0000 for the time instead of 00:00:00 +0000?
This is the code
Calendar.current.date(bySettingHour: 0, minute: 0, second: 0, of: Date())!
16:00:00 is 4PM. Instead of 12:00AM
When I run it in this site online swift playground https://online.swiftplayground.run/
i get this output 2023-02-26 23:00:00 +0000
I figure this could be because of timezone. But is there a way to get a date object where the value of time is midnight? 00:00:00?
Thoughts?
It has to do with TimeZone.
Consider the following code:
let f = DateFormatter()
f.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")
f.dateFormat = "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"
let time = Calendar.current.date(bySettingHour: 0, minute: 0, second: 0, of: Date())!
var timeString = f.string(from: time)
print("UTC", timeString)
f.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "Europe/Paris")
timeString = f.string(from: time)
print("Paris", timeString)
You'll get:
- UTC 2023/02/26 23:00:00
- Paris 2023/02/27 00:00:00
Get all time zones here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47494222/getting-the-city-country-list-in-ios-time-zone
