Swift get server time

Question

Is there a way to get a server time to use with swift. I want to set a static time based on a server. so that even if a user changes the time zone and the date, it wouldn\'t

Answer 1

Based on this link https://github.com/freak4pc/NSDate-ServerDate i wrote the code for swift. Tried and tested. And it works.

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    //call ServerTimeReturn function

    serverTimeReturn { (getResDate) -> Void in
        var dFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
        dFormatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.LongStyle
        dFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.LongStyle
        dFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone(abbreviation: "GMT")
        var dateGet = dFormatter.stringFromDate(getResDate)

        println("Formatted Time : \(dateGet)")
    }

        }

    func serverTimeReturn(completionHandler:(getResDate: NSDate!) -> Void){

    let url = NSURL(string: "http://www.google.com")      
    let task = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(url!) {(data, response, error) in
        let httpResponse = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse
        if let contentType = httpResponse!.allHeaderFields["Date"] as? String {

            var dFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
            dFormatter.dateFormat = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"
            var serverTime = dFormatter.dateFromString(contentType)
            completionHandler(getResDate: serverTime)
        }
    }

    task.resume()
}