Date Format in Swift

Question

This may be useful for who want to use dateformater.dateformat;

if you want 12.09.18 you use dateformater.dateformat = "dd.MM.yy"

Wednesday, Sep 12, 2018           --> EEEE, MMM d, yyyy
09/12/2018                        --> MM/dd/yyyy
09-12-2018 14:11                  --> MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm
Sep 12, 2:11 PM                   --> MMM d, h:mm a
September 2018                    --> MMMM yyyy
Sep 12, 2018                      --> MMM d, yyyy
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:11:54 +0000   --> E, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z
2018-09-12T14:11:54+0000          --> yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ
12.09.18                          --> dd.MM.yy
10:41:02.112                      --> HH:mm:ss.SSS

Here are alternatives:

• era: G (AD), GGGG (Anno Domini)
• year: y (2018), yy (18), yyyy (2018)
• month: M, MM, MMM, MMMM, MMMMM
• day of month: d, dd
• day name of week: E, EEEE, EEEEE, EEEEEE

You have to declare 2 different NSDateFormatters, the first to convert the string to a NSDate and the second to print the date in your format.
Try this code:

let dateFormatterGet = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

let dateFormatterPrint = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"

let date: NSDate? = dateFormatterGet.dateFromString("2016-02-29 12:24:26")
print(dateFormatterPrint.stringFromDate(date!))

Swift 3 and higher:

From Swift 3 NSDate class has been changed to Date and NSDateFormatter to DateFormatter.

let dateFormatterGet = DateFormatter()
dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

let dateFormatterPrint = DateFormatter()
dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"

if let date = dateFormatterGet.date(from: "2016-02-29 12:24:26") {
    print(dateFormatterPrint.string(from: date))
} else {
   print("There was an error decoding the string")
}

Swift - 5.0

let date = Date()
let formate = date.getFormattedDate(format: "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss") // Set output formate

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

Swift - 4.0

2018-02-01T19:10:04+00:00 Convert Feb 01,2018

extension Date {
    static func getFormattedDate(string: String , formatter:String) -> String{
        let dateFormatterGet = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"

        let dateFormatterPrint = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"

        let date: Date? = dateFormatterGet.date(from: "2018-02-01T19:10:04+00:00")
        print("Date",dateFormatterPrint.string(from: date!)) // Feb 01,2018
        return dateFormatterPrint.string(from: date!);
    }
}

Swift 3 and higher

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateStyle = .medium
dateFormatter.timeStyle = .none
dateFormatter.locale = Locale.current
print(dateFormatter.string(from: date)) // Jan 2, 2001

This is also helpful when you want to localize your App. The Locale(identifier: ) uses the ISO 639-1 Code. See also the Apple Documentation

Swift 3 version with the new Date object instead NSDate:

let dateFormatterGet = DateFormatter()
dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"

let date: Date? = dateFormatterGet.date(from: "2017-02-14 17:24:26")
print(dateFormatter.string(from: date!))

EDIT: after mitul-nakum suggestion

swift 3

let date : Date = Date()
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMM dd, yyyy"
let todaysDate = dateFormatter.string(from: date)

I solved my problem to the format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'(e.g 2018-06-15T00:00:00.000Z) with this:

func formatDate(date: String) -> String {
   let dateFormatterGet = DateFormatter()
   dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'"

   let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
   dateFormatter.dateStyle = .medium
   dateFormatter.timeStyle = .none
   //    dateFormatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US") //uncomment if you don't want to get the system default format.

   let dateObj: Date? = dateFormatterGet.date(from: date)

   return dateFormatter.string(from: dateObj!)
}