Not able to get date in string format

Question

I'm storing some dates in coredata in Date format. In another viewcontroller, I want to retrieve those dates and convert them to string. I tried to achieve it like so...

if let bday = result.birthday {

print(bday)
let formatter = DateFormatter()
let bDateString = formatter.string(from: bday as Date)
print(bDateString)
self.birthdate = bDateString

}

Here, printing bday gives the proper date. But printing bDateString after converting to string gives nil. What am I doing wrong...?

Need to assign date formate to formatter object like formatter.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy" in which you want o/p. — Yagnesh Dobariya, Apr 03 '18 at 06:17
may be you forget to set date fromate like formtter.dateformate = "your date formate" — Devil Decoder, Apr 03 '18 at 06:18
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html#Date_Format_Patterns. You can also check all the available formats in DateFormatter which you can use. — SriTeja Chilakamarri, Apr 03 '18 at 06:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 03 '18 at 06:17

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Please provide format of date like this :

formatter.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy" //provide your date format here

answered Apr 03 '18 at 06:17

Jayesh Thanki

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '18 at 06:31

The issue is you have not provided date format.

Even you can use this extension

extension Date {    static func getFormattedDate(string: String) -> String{
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss +zzzz" // This formate is input formated .

        let formateDate = dateFormatter.date(from:"2018-02-02 06:50:16 +0000")!
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd-MM-yyyy" // Output Formated

        print ("Print :\(dateFormatter.string(from: formateDate))")//Print :02-02-2018
        return dateFormatter.string(from: formateDate)
    } }

Not able to get date in string format

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