Formatting NSDate into particular styles for both year month day and hour minute seconds

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I basically need to get current date and time separately  formatted as    2009-04-26  11 06 54   The code below  from another question on the same topic  generates   now          2009-06-01 23 18 23  0100   dateString   Jun 01  2009 23 18   parsed       2009-06-01 23 18 00  0100    This is almost what I m looking for  but I want to separate the day and time   NSDateFormatter  format     NSDateFormatter alloc  init    format setDateFormat   MMM dd  yyyy HH mm     NSDate  now     NSDate alloc  init    NSString  dateString    format stringFromDate now    NSDateFormatter  inFormat     NSDateFormatter alloc  init    inFormat setDateFormat   MMM dd  yyyy     NSDate  parsed    inFormat dateFromString dateString    NSLog    n   now               n   dateString        n   parsed             now  dateString  parsed

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NSDate  date            NSDate date   NSDateFormatter  df     NSDateFormatter alloc  init    df setDateFormat   yyyy-MM-dd   NSString  dateString     df stringFromDate date    df setDateFormat   hh mm ss    NSString  hoursString    df stringFromDate date     Thats it  you got it all you want

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this is what i used   NSDateFormatter  dateFormat     NSDateFormatter alloc  init    dateFormat setDateFormat   yyyy-MM-dd     NSDateFormatter  timeFormat     NSDateFormatter alloc  init    timeFormat setDateFormat   HH mm ss     NSDate  now     NSDate alloc  init    NSString  theDate    dateFormat stringFromDate now   NSString  theTime    timeFormat stringFromDate now    NSLog    n         theDate        n         theTime        n          theDate  theTime     dateFormat release    timeFormat release    now release

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nothing new but still want to share my method     NSString   getDateStringFromSrcFormat  NSString    srcFormat destFormat  NSString    destFormat scrString  NSString    srcString       NSString  dateString   srcString      NSDateFormatter  dateFormatter     NSDateFormatter alloc  init          dateFormatter setDateFormat   MM-dd-yyyy         dateFormatter setDateFormat srcFormat       NSDate  date    dateFormatter dateFromString dateString           Convert date object into desired format        dateFormatter setDateFormat   yyyy-MM-dd         dateFormatter setDateFormat destFormat       NSString  newDateString    dateFormatter stringFromDate date       return newDateString

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Swift 3 extension Date            func toString template  String  - gt  String           let formatter   DateFormatter           formatter dateFormat   DateFormatter dateFormat fromTemplate  template  options  0  locale  NSLocale current          return formatter string from  self                Usage let now   Date   let nowStr0   now toString template   quot EEEEdMMM quot      Tuesday  May 9 let nowStr1   now toString template   quot yyyy-MM-dd quot      2017-05-09 let nowStr2   now toString template   quot HH mm ss quot      17 47 09  Play with template to match your needs  Examples and doc here to help you build the template you need  Note You may want to cache your DateFormatter if you plan to use it in TableView for instance  To give an idea  looping over 1000 dates took me 0 5 sec using the above toString template  String  function  compared to 0 05 sec using myFormatter string from  Date

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NSDateFormatter  dateformat     NSDateFormatter alloc  init        dateformat setDateFormat   Your Date Format      set the format to return is      yyyy-MM-dd return 2015-12-17 date  yyyy-MMM-dd  return 2015-Dec-17 date  yy-MM-dd return 15-12-17 date  dd-MM-yy  return 17-12-15 date  dd-MM-yyyy  return 17-12-2015 date  yyyy-MMM-dd HH mm ss  return 2015-Dec-17 08 07 13 date and time  yyyy-MMM-dd HH mm  return 2015-Dec-17 08 07 date and time  For more Details Data and Time Format for Click Now   Thank you

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iPhone format strings are in Unicode format   Behind the link is a table explaining what all the letters above mean so you can build your own   And of course don t forget to release your date formatters when you re done with them  The above code leaks format  now  and inFormat

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For swift  var dateString String    2014-05-20   var dateFmt   NSDateFormatter      the format you want dateFmt dateFormat    yyyy-MM-dd  var date1 NSDate   dateFmt dateFromString dateString

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you can use this method  just  pass your date to it  - NSString   getDateFromString  NSString   string        NSString   dateString    NSString stringWithFormat        string        NSDateFormatter  dateFormatter     NSDateFormatter alloc  init        dateFormatter setDateFormat   your current date format        NSDate  myDate    dateFormatter dateFromString dateString        NSDateFormatter  formatter     NSDateFormatter alloc  init        formatter setDateFormat   your desired format        NSString  stringFromDate    formatter stringFromDate myDate        NSLog        stringFromDate       return stringFromDate

[cocoa] Formatting NSDate into particular styles for both year, month, day, and hour, minute, seconds

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