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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Data Modeling With Structures Customizing Dates

Matthew Turk
Matthew Turk
6,155 Points
Posted by Matthew Turk
Matthew Turk
6,155 Points

Knotted Up In Formatting Time

On stage 3, challenge task 2, I was asked to properly format the date and I am confused with the .MediumStyle & .ShortStyle etcetera. Please help? Code is attached.

date_formatter.swift 
import Foundation
let secondsSinceBirth = NSTimeInterval(1200000000)
var dateOfBirth = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: secondsSinceBirth)
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.ShortStyle
dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.MediumStyle
var stringDate = "\(dateOfBirth)"

1 Answer

Vikram Chowdary
Vikram Chowdary
1,386 Points
Vikram Chowdary
Vikram Chowdary
1,386 Points

TimeStyle and DateStyle are just the formatters which helps you format the NSdate value.

From the above code you get a NSdate value as follows : 2008-01-10 21:20:00 +0000

If you format the date using the TimeStyle and DateStyle that will return you an output as follows : Jan 10, 2008, 9:20 PM

How to achieve this :

**let secondsSinceBirth = NSTimeInterval(1200000000)

var dateOfBirth = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: secondsSinceBirth)

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

dateFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.ShortStyle

dateFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.MediumStyle

var stringDate = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(dateOfBirth)***