Date formatting not working in Swift 3

Question

I'm having a problem with NSDate in a function. Essentially, the formatting is not working, and I need another set of eyes to see what I'm doing wrong.

Code:

 @IBOutlet weak var dateField: NSTextField!

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMMM dd yyyy"
let currentDate = NSDate()

convertedDateString = dateFormatter.string(from:currentDate as Date)
dateField.stringValue = convertedDateString as String

print("convertedDate: ", convertedDateString)
print("dateField.stringValue: ", dateField.stringValue)

Result:

convertedDate: July 25 2016
dateField.stringValue: 7/25/16

Answer 1

Date().toString() // convert date to string with userdefined format.

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

Answer 2

Extension for getting string against date formats

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

Date().toString(format:"H:mm")