How to create a Date from a string in UTC format?

Question

I am trying to create a Date object from a string in UTC format. So I follow this example in this blog: https://www.robertpieta.com/local-utc-date-format-swift/

And I did

let isoDateString = "2020-05-31T04:32:27Z"
let date = ISO8601DateFormatter().date(from: isoDateString)

But when I run the code on Xcode 12, 'date' is nil. Is that something got change in Xcode 12 which made above example stop working?

Thank you.

Works fine for me in Xcode 12 – Joakim Danielson Sep 18 '20 at 06:32 — Joakim Danielson, Sep 18 '20 at 06:32
Is it similar to https://stackoverflow.com/q/59171939/6309? – VonC Sep 18 '20 at 07:26 — VonC, Sep 18 '20 at 07:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '20 at 16:40

You can try this, using DateFormatter Class, I hope this helps you

let isoDateString = "2020-05-31T04:32:27Z"
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
// This returns a date from the string date
let date = dateFormatter.date(from: isoDateString)
print("isoDateString >> \(isoDateString)")
print("date >> \(String(describing: date))")

The output is:

isoDateString >> 2020-05-31T04:32:27Z
date >> Optional(2020-05-31 09:32:27 +0000)

How to create a Date from a string in UTC format?

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