Re: Adding minutes to display time
Re: Adding minutes to display time
- Subject: Re: Adding minutes to display time
- From: Greg Parker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:21:45 -0800
> On Dec 8, 2015, at 2:04 PM, Eric E. Dolecki <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I tried an extension I found. It's off by 5 hours...
>
> extension NSDate
> {
> convenience
> init(dateString:String) {
> let dateStringFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
> dateStringFormatter.calendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier:
> NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)
> dateStringFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"
> dateStringFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier:
> "en_US_POSIX")
> dateStringFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone.localTimeZone()
> let d = dateStringFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)!
> self.init(timeInterval:0, sinceDate:d)
> }
> }
>
> ...
>
> let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
> calendar.timeZone = NSTimeZone.localTimeZone()
> calendar.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US_POSIX")
> let startDate = NSDate(dateString:"2015-12-08 7:30")
> let date = calendar.dateByAddingUnit(.Minute, value: 5, toDate:
> startDate, options: [])
> * print (date!) //This is way off. How to fix this?*
What is the value of print(startDate) ?
What do you get if you display `date` and `startDate` using an NSDateFormatter instead of print() ?
I bet `date` and `startDate` are in fact five minutes apart, but either your date construction or your date display are not using the time zone you expect.
--
Greg Parker email@hidden Runtime Wrangler
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