NSDateformatter setDateFormat according to currentLocale

Question

I'm going mad with, probably, a stupid problem.

I have 3 strings: year, month and day. I need to have a date in the right format based on currentLocale, so i.e. if currentLocale localeIdentifier is en_US my dateFormat should be: MMM/dd/yyyy

if it's fr_FR the dateFormat should be dd/MMM/yyyy

I don't think the only way to do this is to get currentLocale localeIdentifier and start with a bunch of if then.

Thanks in advance.

Max

Answer 1

In Swift 3:

let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateStyle = .medium
formatter.timeStyle = .none
formatter.locale = Locale.current
let date = Date()
let dateString = formatter.string(from: date)
print(dateString)