Swift ISO8601 format to Date

Question

I have the following string: 20180207T124600Z

How can I turn this into a Date object?

Here is my current code but it returns nil:<

Answer 1

You need to specify the format options for the ISO8601DateFormatter to match your requirements (year, month, day and time), here is an example below:

//: Playground - noun: a place where people can play

import UIKit

let dateString = "20180207T124600Z"
let dateFormatter = ISO8601DateFormatter()

dateFormatter.formatOptions = [
    .withYear,
    .withMonth,
    .withDay,
    .withTime
]

print(dateFormatter.string(from: Date()))
print(dateFormatter.date(from: dateString))