What is the best way to deal with the NSDateFormatter locale “feechur”?

Question

It seems that NSDateFormatter has a \"feature\" that bites you unexpectedly: If you do a simple \"fixed\" format operation such as:

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Answer 1

Here is the solution for that problem in the swift version. In swift we can use extension instead of category. So, Here I have created the extension for the DateFormatter and inside that initWithSafeLocale returns the DateFormatter with the relevant Locale, Here in our case that is en_US_POSIX, Apart from that also provided couple of date formation methods.

• Swift 4

  extension DateFormatter {
  
  private static var dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
  
  class func initWithSafeLocale(withDateFormat dateFormat: String? = nil) -> DateFormatter {
  
      dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
  
      var en_US_POSIX: Locale? = nil;
  
      if (en_US_POSIX == nil) {
          en_US_POSIX = Locale.init(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")
      }
      dateFormatter.locale = en_US_POSIX
  
      if dateFormat != nil, let format = dateFormat {
          dateFormatter.dateFormat = format
      }else{
          dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
      }
      return dateFormatter
  }
  
  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  class func getDateFromString(string: String, fromFormat dateFormat: String? = nil) -> Date? {
  
      if dateFormat != nil, let format = dateFormat {
          dateFormatter = DateFormatter.initWithSafeLocale(withDateFormat: format)
      }else{
          dateFormatter = DateFormatter.initWithSafeLocale()
      }
      guard let date = dateFormatter.date(from: string) else {
          return nil
      }
      return date
  }
  
  // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  class func getStringFromDate(date: Date, fromDateFormat dateFormat: String? = nil)-> String {
  
      if dateFormat != nil, let format = dateFormat {
          dateFormatter = DateFormatter.initWithSafeLocale(withDateFormat: format)
      }else{
          dateFormatter = DateFormatter.initWithSafeLocale()
      }
  
      let string = dateFormatter.string(from: date)
  
      return string
  }   }
  

• usage description:

  let date = DateFormatter.getDateFromString(string: "11-07-2001”, fromFormat: "dd-MM-yyyy")
  print("custom date : \(date)")
  let dateFormatter = DateFormatter.initWithSafeLocale(withDateFormat: "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
  let dt = DateFormatter.getDateFromString(string: "2001-05-05 12:34:56")
  print("base date = \(dt)")
  dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
  let dateString = dateFormatter.string(from: Date())
  print("dateString = " + dateString)
  let date1 = dateFormatter.date(from: "2001-05-05 12:34:56")
  print("date1 = \(String(describing: date1))")
  let date2 = dateFormatter.date(from: "2001-05-05 22:34:56")
  print("date2 = \(String(describing: date2))")
  let date3 = dateFormatter.date(from: "2001-05-05 12:34:56PM")
  print("date3 = \(String(describing: date3))")
  let date4 = dateFormatter.date(from: "2001-05-05 12:34:56 PM")
  print("date4 = \(String(describing: date4))")