Convert NSDate to String in iOS Swift [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to convert a NSDate to a String and then Change Format. But when I pass NSDate to String it is producing whitespace.

 let formatter = DateFormatter()
 let myString = (String(describing: date))
 formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
 let yourDate: Date? = formatter.date(from: myString)
 formatter.dateFormat = "dd-MMM-yyyy"
 print(yourDate)

Answer 1

you get the detail information from Apple Dateformatter Document.If you want to set the dateformat for your dateString, see this link , the detail dateformat you can get here for e.g , do like

let formatter = DateFormatter()
// initially set the format based on your datepicker date / server String
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

let myString = formatter.string(from: Date()) // string purpose I add here 
// convert your string to date
let yourDate = formatter.date(from: myString)
//then again set the date format whhich type of output you need
formatter.dateFormat = "dd-MMM-yyyy"
// again convert your date to string
let myStringDate = formatter.string(from: yourDate!)

print(myStringDate)

you get the output as

Answer 2

I always use this code while converting Date to String . (Swift 3)

extension Date
{
    func toString( dateFormat format  : String ) -> String
    {
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = format
        return dateFormatter.string(from: self)
    }

}

and call like this . .

let today = Date()
today.toString(dateFormat: "dd-MM")