Convert date to timestamp in iOS

Question

How do you convert any given date to milliseconds? For example, 2014-01-23 to timestamp conversion.

NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2014-01-23"];
NSLog(@"date=%@",date);
NSTimeInterval interval  = [date timeIntervalSince1970];
NSLog(@"interval=%f",interval);
NSDate *methodStart = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:interval];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy/mm/dd "];
NSLog(@"result: %@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:methodStart]);

Output result: 1970/30/01

Answer 1

Swift

Convert the current date/time to a timestamp:

// current date and time
let someDate = Date()

// time interval since 1970
let myTimeStamp = someDate.timeIntervalSince1970

See also

• Convert Date to Integer in Swift
• Creating a Date and Time in Swift
• How to get the current time as datetime

Answer 2

Have it a try. "mm" stands for minute while "MM" stands for month.

NSDateFormatter * dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] ;
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"] ;
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2014-01-23"] ;
NSLog(@"date=%@",date) ;
NSTimeInterval interval  = [date timeIntervalSince1970] ;
NSLog(@"interval=%f",interval) ;
NSDate *methodStart = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:interval] ;
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy/MM/dd "] ;
NSLog(@"result: %@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:methodStart]) ;