How to get a user's time zone?

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Xcode 8 or later • Swift 3 or later

var secondsFromGMT: Int { return TimeZone.current.secondsFromGMT() }
secondsFromGMT  // -7200

if you need the abbreviation:

var localTimeZoneAbbreviation: String { return TimeZone.current.abbreviation() ?? "" }
localTimeZoneAbbreviation   // "GMT-2"

if you need the timezone identifier:

var localTimeZoneIdentifier: String { return TimeZone.current.identifier }

localTimeZoneIdentifier // "America/Sao_Paulo"

To know all timezones abbreviations available:

var timeZoneAbbreviations: [String:String] { return TimeZone.abbreviationDictionary }
timeZoneAbbreviations   // ["CEST": "Europe/Paris", "WEST": "Europe/Lisbon", "CDT": "America/Chicago", "EET": "Europe/Istanbul", "BRST": "America/Sao_Paulo", "EEST": "Europe/Istanbul", "CET": "Europe/Paris", "MSD": "Europe/Moscow", "MST": "America/Denver", "KST": "Asia/Seoul", "PET": "America/Lima", "NZDT": "Pacific/Auckland", "CLT": "America/Santiago", "HST": "Pacific/Honolulu", "MDT": "America/Denver", "NZST": "Pacific/Auckland", "COT": "America/Bogota", "CST": "America/Chicago", "SGT": "Asia/Singapore", "CAT": "Africa/Harare", "BRT": "America/Sao_Paulo", "WET": "Europe/Lisbon", "IST": "Asia/Calcutta", "HKT": "Asia/Hong_Kong", "GST": "Asia/Dubai", "EDT": "America/New_York", "WIT": "Asia/Jakarta", "UTC": "UTC", "JST": "Asia/Tokyo", "IRST": "Asia/Tehran", "PHT": "Asia/Manila", "AKDT": "America/Juneau", "BST": "Europe/London", "PST": "America/Los_Angeles", "ART": "America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires", "PDT": "America/Los_Angeles", "WAT": "Africa/Lagos", "EST": "America/New_York", "BDT": "Asia/Dhaka", "CLST": "America/Santiago", "AKST": "America/Juneau", "ADT": "America/Halifax", "AST": "America/Halifax", "PKT": "Asia/Karachi", "GMT": "GMT", "ICT": "Asia/Bangkok", "MSK": "Europe/Moscow", "EAT": "Africa/Addis_Ababa"]

To know all timezones names (identifiers) available:

var timeZoneIdentifiers: [String] { return TimeZone.knownTimeZoneIdentifiers }
timeZoneIdentifiers           // ["Africa/Abidjan", "Africa/Accra", "Africa/Addis_Ababa", "Africa/Algiers", "Africa/Asmara", "Africa/Bamako", "Africa/Bangui", "Africa/Banjul", "Africa/Bissau", "Africa/Blantyre", "Africa/Brazzaville", "Africa/Bujumbura", "Africa/Cairo", "Africa/Casablanca", "Africa/Ceuta", "Africa/Conakry", "Africa/Dakar", "Africa/Dar_es_Salaam", "Africa/Djibouti", "Africa/Douala", "Africa/El_Aaiun", "Africa/Freetown", "Africa/Gaborone", "Africa/Harare", "Africa/Johannesburg", "Africa/Juba", "Africa/Kampala", "Africa/Khartoum", "Africa/Kigali", "Africa/Kinshasa", "Africa/Lagos", "Africa/Libreville", "Africa/Lome", "Africa/Luanda", "Africa/Lubumbashi", "Africa/Lusaka", "Africa/Malabo", "Africa/Maputo", "Africa/Maseru", "Africa/Mbabane", "Africa/Mogadishu", "Africa/Monrovia", "Africa/Nairobi", "Africa/Ndjamena", "Africa/Niamey", "Africa/Nouakchott", "Africa/Ouagadougou", "Africa/Porto-Novo", "Africa/Sao_Tome", "Africa/Tripoli", "Africa/Tunis", "Africa/Windhoek", "America/Adak", "America/Anchorage", "America/Anguilla", "America/Antigua", "America/Araguaina", "America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires", "America/Argentina/Catamarca", "America/Argentina/Cordoba", "America/Argentina/Jujuy", "America/Argentina/La_Rioja", "America/Argentina/Mendoza", "America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos", "America/Argentina/Salta", "America/Argentina/San_Juan", "America/Argentina/San_Luis", "America/Argentina/Tucuman", "America/Argentina/Ushuaia", "America/Aruba", "America/Asuncion", "America/Atikokan", "America/Bahia", "America/Bahia_Banderas", "America/Barbados", "America/Belem", "America/Belize", "America/Blanc-Sablon", "America/Boa_Vista", "America/Bogota", …, "Pacific/Marquesas", "Pacific/Midway", "Pacific/Nauru", "Pacific/Niue", "Pacific/Norfolk", "Pacific/Noumea", "Pacific/Pago_Pago", "Pacific/Palau", "Pacific/Pitcairn", "Pacific/Pohnpei", "Pacific/Ponape", "Pacific/Port_Moresby", "Pacific/Rarotonga", "Pacific/Saipan", "Pacific/Tahiti", "Pacific/Tarawa", "Pacific/Tongatapu", "Pacific/Truk", "Pacific/Wake", "Pacific/Wallis"]

There is a few other info you may need:

var isDaylightSavingTime: Bool { return TimeZone.current.isDaylightSavingTime(for: Date()) }
print(isDaylightSavingTime) // true (in effect)

var daylightSavingTimeOffset: TimeInterval { return TimeZone.current.daylightSavingTimeOffset() }
print(daylightSavingTimeOffset)  // 3600 seconds (1 hour - daylight savings time)


var nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition: Date? { return TimeZone.current.nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition }    //  "Feb 18, 2017, 11:00 PM"
 print(nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition?.description(with: .current) ?? "none")
nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition   // "Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 11:00:00 PM Brasilia Standard Time\n"

var nextDaylightSavingTimeTransitionAfterNext: Date? {
    guard
        let nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition = nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition
        else { return nil }
    return TimeZone.current.nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition(after: nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition)
}

nextDaylightSavingTimeTransitionAfterNext  //   "Oct 15, 2017, 1:00 AM"

TimeZone - Apple Developer Swift Documentation

Xcode 8.2.1 • Swift 3.0.2

Locale.availableIdentifiers
Locale.isoRegionCodes
Locale.isoCurrencyCodes
Locale.isoLanguageCodes
Locale.commonISOCurrencyCodes

Locale.current.regionCode           // "US"
Locale.current.languageCode         // "en"
Locale.current.currencyCode         // "USD"
Locale.current.currencySymbol       // "$"
Locale.current.groupingSeparator    // ","
Locale.current.decimalSeparator     // "."
Locale.current.usesMetricSystem     // false

Locale.windowsLocaleCode(fromIdentifier: "pt_BR")                   //  1,046
Locale.identifier(fromWindowsLocaleCode: 1046) ?? ""                // "pt_BR"
Locale.windowsLocaleCode(fromIdentifier: Locale.current.identifier) //  1,033 Note: I am in Brasil but I use "en_US" format with all my devices
Locale.windowsLocaleCode(fromIdentifier: "en_US")                                   // 1,033
Locale.identifier(fromWindowsLocaleCode: 1033) ?? ""                                // "en_US"

Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX").localizedString(forLanguageCode: "pt")            // "Portuguese"
Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX").localizedString(forRegionCode: "br")              // "Brazil"
Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX").localizedString(forIdentifier: "pt_BR")           // "Portuguese (Brazil)"

TimeZone.current.localizedName(for: .standard, locale: .current) ?? ""              // "Brasilia Standard Time"
TimeZone.current.localizedName(for: .shortStandard, locale: .current) ?? ""         // "GMT-3
TimeZone.current.localizedName(for: .daylightSaving, locale: .current) ?? ""        // "Brasilia Summer Time"
TimeZone.current.localizedName(for: .shortDaylightSaving, locale: .current) ?? ""   // "GMT-2"
TimeZone.current.localizedName(for: .generic, locale: .current) ?? ""               // "Brasilia Time"
TimeZone.current.localizedName(for: .shortGeneric, locale: .current) ?? ""          // "Sao Paulo Time"

var timeZone: String {
    return TimeZone.current.localizedName(for: TimeZone.current.isDaylightSavingTime() ?
                                               .daylightSaving :
                                               .standard,
                                          locale: .current) ?? "" }

timeZone       // "Brasilia Summer Time"

You can use below code for getting current time zone

 func getCurrentTimeZone() -> String{

         return TimeZone.current.identifier

  }

  let currentTimeZone = getCurrentTimeZone()
   print(currentTimeZone)

Objective-C

NSTimeZone *timeZone = [NSTimeZone localTimeZone];
NSString *tzName = [timeZone name];

Swift

let tzName = TimeZone.current.identifier

The name will be something like "Australia/Sydney", or "Europe/Lisbon".

Since it sounds like you might only care about the continent, that might be all you need.

To retrieve the current user time zone, use the code below.

TimeZone.current.abbreviation()!

Other Date Formate here.

OUTPUT:

Swift 4, 4.2 & 5

var gmtHoursOffset : String = String()
    
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    gmtHoursOffset = getHoursFromGmt()
    print(gmtHoursOffset)
}

func getHoursFromGmt() -> String {
    let secondsFromGmt: Int = TimeZone.current.secondsFromGMT()
    let hoursFromGmt = (secondsFromGmt / 3600)
    return "\(hoursFromGmt)"
}