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

Teemu Virta
Teemu Virta
10,868 Points
Posted by Teemu Virta
Teemu Virta
10,868 Points

Weather App Stage 3 Challenge not working

Challenge: Use the date formatter object to create a string representation of the dateOfBirth. First, set the time style to be a short time style and the date to be of a medium style. Use the modified date formatter to create a string from the dateOfBirth date and store it in a variable named stringDate. Hint: Check out the Managing Formats and Styles under the NSDateFormatter class reference.

I tested my code with Playground and it works fine, but it does not compile on the treehouse site. Any clues?

date_formatter.swift 
import Foundation
let secondsSinceBirth = NSTimeInterval(1200000000)
var dateOfBirth = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: secondsSinceBirth)

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()

dateFormatter.timeStyle = .ShortStyle
dateFormatter.dateStyle = .MediumStyle
var stringDate = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(dateOfBirth)

1 Answer

Myers Carpenter
Myers Carpenter
6,421 Points

We are working on a solution to this right now. We should it have in place in the next 2 hours. Sorry for the trouble.

Teemu Virta
Teemu Virta
10,868 Points
Teemu Virta
Teemu Virta
10,868 Points

Ah cheers! All good, I just stepped over it for now as I was fairly sure it was correct.