iPhone CurrentTimeZoneOffset from UTC

Question

Is there a way to get the offset time zone for a given date.

For example, if I am in New York and I pass in 12-12-2009 4 PM I would get back "-4" as we are 4 hours off GMT.

(In .NET land there is a function to do that off the DateTime class. So I'm guess Cocoa has it too?)

Ian

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '10 at 14:50

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You can use the following:

[[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone] secondsFromGMTForDate:someDate];

This will return the offset in seconds.

See Apple's documentation on the NSTimeZone class for details.

answered Jan 14 '10 at 14:50

e.James

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '15 at 14:50

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Here is solution in Swift for getting time offset in String

answered May 03 '15 at 14:50

imike

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