I'm trying to convert string to NSDate. I suppose that my dateFormat is ok, but i still receive nil.
My code:
let dateStr = tweet.objectForKey("created_at") as! String
print(dateStr)
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "E MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateStr)
print(date)
Output:
Mon Apr 04 20:12:54 +0000 2016
nil
Mon Apr 04 14:17:09 +0000 2016
nil
Mon Apr 04 14:07:32 +0000 2016
nil
Sun Feb 21 12:37:23 +0000 2016
nil
I am using the same code and it's working for me. Assuming, you are getting correct value for dateStr as it is shown in Output.
let dateStr = "Mon Apr 04 20:12:54 +0000 201"
print(dateStr)
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "E MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateStr)
print(date!)
Output:
Mon Apr 04 20:12:54 +0000 2016
2016-04-04 20:12:54 +0000
See attached screenshot
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intl: ^0.16.1
Can't seem to parse HTTP header date field with flutter DateFormat/HttpDate
here is what I tried:
var date = HttpDate.parse("Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:53:15 +0200");
return error:
Invalid HTTP date Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:53:15 +0200
Note: the string was received by package:googleapis/gmail/v1.dart
final zFormatDateEmailRFC2822 = DateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
var date = zFormatDateEmailRFC2822.parse("Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:53:15 +0200");
return error:
Trying to read EEE from Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:53:15 +0200 at position 0
The following is an example from https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/intl/DateFormat-class.html
final fmt = DateFormat('EEE, MMM d, ''yy');
var date = fmt.parse("Wed, Jul 10, '96");
return error:
Trying to read EEE from Wed, Jul 10, '96 at position 0
final fmt = DateFormat("d MMM yyyy");
var date = fmt.parse("11 Feb 2021");
return error:
Trying to read MMM from 11 Feb 2021 at position 3
final fmt = DateFormat("MMM");
var date = fmt.parse("Feb");
return error:
Trying to read LLL from Feb at position 0
The only thing that works for me is:
var dateStr = "Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:53:15 +0200";
RegExp regExp = RegExp(r"(.*, \d+ .* \d+ \d+:\d+:\d+)");
if (regExp.hasMatch(dateStr)) {
var groups = regExp.firstMatch(dateStr);
var date = HttpDate.parse(groups[1] + " GMT");
print("date $date >${HttpDate.format(date)}<");
}
Try it:
final fmt = DateFormat("d MMM yyyy", "en_US");
var date = fmt.parse("11 Feb 2021");
I had to parse the email header date string
Somehow the other answers where not considering everything i needed and so i came up with the following solution which also takes care of the timezone +0200
DateFormat('E, d MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss Z', 'en_US').parse(DATE_STRING);
Input String : Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:00:43 +0200
DateTime.toISo8601String() => 2021-08-18T09:00:43.000
DateTime.toUTC().toString() => 2021-08-18 07:00:43.000Z
If you want to learn more about the patterns please have a look at DateFormat
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Convert string with unknown format (any format) to date
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Closed 6 years ago.
I have an array of dates that I would like to get an NSDate object from, using an NSDateFormatter.
let dates = [
"Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:03:45 Z",
"Sun, 05 Jun 2016 08:35:14 Z",
"Sun, 05 Jun 2016 08:54 +0000",
"Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:31:23 GMT",
"Sat, 04 Jun 2016 16:26:37 EDT",
"Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:55:28 PDT",
"Sun, 5 Jun 2016 01:51:07 -0700",
"Sun, 5 Jun 2016 01:30:30 -0700",
"Thu, 02 June 2016 14:43:37 GMT",
"Sun, 5 Jun 2016 01:49:56 -0700",
"Fri, 27 May 2016 14:32:19 -0400",
"Sun, 05 Jun 2016 01:45:00 -0700",
"Sun, 05 Jun 2016 08:32:03 +0000",
"Sat, 04 Jun 2016 22:33:02 +0000",
"Sun, 05 Jun 2016 01:52:30 -0700",
"Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:24:37 +0000"
]
I was going with the GWT pattern, but felt strange structuring my unit test like that, because I need to write a dozen or more distinct test funtions for each case.
Can anyone suggest a better approach to this? Or is this an acceptable usage of the "Given, When, Then" pattern?
..I really don't want to have a testRFC822DateFormatter1(), testRFC822DateFormatter2(), testRFC822DateFormatter3(),...
func testRFC822DateFormatter() {
// Given
let rfc822DateFormatter = RFC822DateFormatter()
let dateString = "Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:03:45 Z"
// When
let date = rfc822DateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
// Then
XCTAssertNotNil(date)
let components = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().components([.Year, .Month, .Day, .Hour, .Minute, .Second, .TimeZone, .Calendar], fromDate: date!)
XCTAssertEqual(components.day, 4)
XCTAssertEqual(components.month, 2)
XCTAssertEqual(components.year, 2014)
XCTAssertEqual(components.hour, 22)
XCTAssertEqual(components.minute, 3)
XCTAssertEqual(components.second, 45)
XCTAssertEqual(components.timeZone?.daylightSavingTimeOffset, 3600)
XCTAssertEqual(components.timeZone?.secondsFromGMT, 3600)
XCTAssertEqual(components.calendar?.calendarIdentifier, NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)
}
Thank you!
There are two kinds of tests you need.
1) A test to ensure that a particular dateFormat works properly with a particular format of date.
2) A test to ensure that if two different dateFormats work on a particular format of date, that they are either both the same or your logic will pick the correct one.
So I would envision one test for each dateFormat and one test for each date that could potentially match more than one format.
For these tests, the GWT pattern is fine as far as I can tell. It's more a matter of identifying all the various date formats you will need to use and making sure that the correct date format is used for each date.
As an aside, I wouldn't be comfortable subclassing NSDateFormatter, nor do I see that it's necessary... For the inputs you specify in your question, the code below is all that's necessary:
let dateFormatter1: NSDateFormatter = {
let result = NSDateFormatter()
result.dateFormat = "EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
return result
}()
let dateFormatter2: NSDateFormatter = {
let result = NSDateFormatter()
result.dateFormat = "EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm Z"
return result
}()
let dateFormatter3: NSDateFormatter = {
let result = NSDateFormatter()
result.dateFormat = "EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"
return result
}()
func dateFromString(dateString: String) -> NSDate? {
return dateFormatter1.dateFromString(dateString) ?? dateFormatter2.dateFromString(dateString) ?? dateFormatter3.dateFromString(dateString)
}
And for the code above, I would expect a total of three tests, one for each date formatter.
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NSDate is 5 hours off
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I'm having trouble converting date String to NSDate
Here is my date string:
Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:59:35 +0300
Trying to convert to NSDate:
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
let dateFromString : NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString("Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:59:35 +0300")
Return NSDate is:
2016-04-08 13:59:35 +0000
Timezone is wrong. Anyone can help with that?
Try this:
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
NSTimeZone.setDefaultTimeZone(NSTimeZone(forSecondsFromGMT: 0))
let dateFromString : NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString("Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:59:35 +0300")!
Note that it does not account for DST.
I want to convert this string to NSDate,
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:26:45 GMT
so I set the date format to this:
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"
but it returns nil.
I tried to change this format to:
E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz
EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss zzz
EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz
but it also returns nil.
Which date format should I use?
Your format string is ok but you have to add a compatible locale to the formatter.
For example your string works well with the US locale:
let source = "Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:26:45 GMT"
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US")
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"
let result = dateFormatter.dateFromString(source)
Try this code block :
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
let dateString = "Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:26:45 GMT"
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"
let date = dateFormatter.dateFromString(dateString)
Try escaping the comma:
E',' dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz
You can try the following code
let dateString:String = "Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:26:45 GMT"
let dateFormat = NSDateFormatter.init()
dateFormat.dateStyle = .FullStyle
dateFormat.dateFormat = "ccc, dd MM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"
let date:NSDate? = dateFormat.dateFromString(dateString)
print(dateFormat.stringFromDate(date!))
For more info please visit NSDateFormatter formatting
I have an API sending date in string with universal time but when I try to convert to NSDate format it tends to return nil. I have looked in lot of places but couldn't find a way to resolve this. Below is my code that I have written. Please help me to find where am I going wrong. The string I'm trying to convert is "Sun Feb 14 23:35:40 UTC 2016". The problem causing it to return nil is with the time zone I believe.
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(abbreviation: "UTC")
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss yyyy"
dateFormatter.dateFromString("Sun Feb 14 23:35:40 UTC 2016")
Like this:
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE MMM dd kk:mm:ss zzz yyyy"
let d = dateFormatter.dateFromString("Sun Feb 14 23:35:40 UTC 2016")