Date format from url (JSON) - swift

Question

How would I be able to take the date format from a URL and turn It into 2 separate date values in SwiftUI. The format from JSON is 2019-11-06 18:30:00 and I'm trying to get it to show as Dec 5 and would also like it to separate the time and show 8:00PM, is this possible?
This is the code that references the start time:
let startTime: String
var startTime: String {
return self.post.startTime
}

Answer 1

Let's step around the fact that 2019-11-06 18:30:00 can't be represented as Dec 5 and 8:00PM and focus on the work flow you'd need.
The basic idea is to:
Convert the String to a Date, via a DateFormatter
Use a custom DateFormatter to format the Date to the required "date" value
Use a custom DateFormatter to format the Date to the required "time" value
This might look something like...
let startTime = "2019-11-06 18:30:00"
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
if let date = formatter.date(from: startTime) {
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMM d"
let dateString = dateFormatter.string(from: date)
let timeFormatter = DateFormatter()
timeFormatter.dateFormat = "h:ma"
let timeString = timeFormatter.string(from: date)
} else {
print("Bad date/format")
}
In my testing, this outputs Nov 6 and 6:30PM

Answer 2

you can pass your string date to date with this function
func stringToDate(date: String, format: String) -> Date
{
let date2 = date.count == 0 ? getCurrentDate(format: "dd-MM-yyyy") : date
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.timeZone = TimeZone.init(identifier: "América/Mexico_City")
dateFormatter.dateFormat = format
let dateDate = dateFormatter.date(from: date2)
return dateDate!
}
func getCurrentDate(format: String) -> String
{
let formD = DateFormatter()
formD.dateFormat = format
let str = formD.string(from:Date())
return str
}
let dateA = stringToDate(date: "2019-11-06 18:30:00", format: "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
if dateA < Date() //Date() always will be the current date, including the time
{
print("dateA is older")
}
else
{
print("dateA in newer")
}
play with the format examples formats