NSDateFormatter “Month” in 3 letters instead of full word

Question

    NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@\"dd-MM-YYYY HH:mm\"];        
    [formatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone syst         


        

Answer 1

This is a stripped down solution that works with Swift 4 in producing a 3 letter month output:

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MMM YYYY, HH:mm:ss"

And to verify:

print(dateFormatter.string(from: Date())) // 20 Mar 2018, 23:41:40

As previously noted, MMM is the correct syntax for getting the desired month output.