Dateformatter returns wrong year for 2017-12-31

Asked Dec 31 '17 at 11:12

Active Dec 31 '17 at 11:29

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Look at this code:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.dateFormat = @"YYYY-MM-dd";
formatter.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"];
NSString *dateString = [formatter stringFromDate:date];

Log:

Printing description of date:
2017-12-31 11:04:07 +0000
Printing description of dateString:
2018-12-31

How did I get 2018???

BTW, this code works perfectly for every other date. It only behaves weird on 2017-12-31...

UPDATE:

Trying to use system time zone, as suggested in comment:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.dateFormat = @"YYYY-MM-dd";
formatter.timeZone = [NSTimeZone systemTimeZone];
NSString *dateString = [formatter stringFromDate:date];

Log:

Printing description of date:
2017-12-31 11:27:04 +0000
Printing description of dateString:
2018-12-31

edited Dec 31 '17 at 11:29

asked Dec 31 '17 at 11:12

Gal

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try using systemTimeZone rather than hard coding UTC `formatter.timeZone = [NSTimeZone systemTimeZone];` – Sandeep Bhandari Dec 31 '17 at 11:24
@SandeepBhandari look at my update. – Gal Dec 31 '17 at 11:29
@Gal Try with `y` instead of `Y` as vadian said. – dahiya_boy Dec 31 '17 at 11:31
@dahiya_boy thank you – Gal Dec 31 '17 at 11:32

Dateformatter returns wrong year for 2017-12-31

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