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How to convert string into date

	@eugenezuban May '22 Hi! I'm using Contentful to fetch my app's content. They return the date as ISO 8601 string. I know how to convert a string into a date with DateFormatter or ISO8601DateFormatter, but when I fetch a date from API I have nil. String format example I need to convert: `2022-05-02T00:00+03:00` Func I use to do it: `func dateFromString(string: String) -> Date { let dateFormatter = ISO8601DateFormatter() let date = dateFormatter.date(from: string) ?? Date.now print(dateFormatter.date(from: string)?.stringValue ?? "Empty") print("ISO TIME: " + string) return date }` Please tell what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it? Thank you! Slava Ukraine! P.S. I fixed it. `func dateFromString(string: String) -> Date { let dateFormatter = ISO8601DateFormatter() dateFormatter.formatOptions = [.withFullDate] // Added format options let date = dateFormatter.date(from: string) ?? Date.now print(dateFormatter.date(from: string)?.stringValue ?? "Empty") print("ISO TIME: " + string) return date }` 2
	@Obelix May '22 Eugene is exploring ISO time. Good luck! They return the date as ISO 8601 string. I know how to convert a string into a date with DateFormatter or ISO8601DateFormatter, but when I fetch a date from API I have nil. First, nice job finding a fix and reporting back. This will help others who might ask the same question! You might want to consider returning an optional `Date` instead of the current date. If your user provides a bogus ISO date, returning `nil` allows you to consider other options. You may even consider writing your function so it `throws` an error. // Paste into Playgrounds. // Consider returning an optional. // You'll want to know if the user entered an isoString incorrectly func dateFromISOString(_ isoString: String) -> Date? { let isoDateFormatter = ISO8601DateFormatter() isoDateFormatter.formatOptions = [.withFullDate] // ignores time! return isoDateFormatter.date(from: isoString) // returns nil, if isoString is malformed. } // Examine your test case. Notice the result ignores time. // Notice too, date is adjusted for local time zone. dateFromISOString("2022-05-02T00:00+03:00") // Notice this ignores time dateFromISOString("2022-05-03") // Notice this ignores time dateFromISOString("2022-07-01T1:10:56Z") // Different ISO format, ignores time dateFromISOString("not_an_iso_date") // Bogus input. Fail. 2
	@Obelix May '22 Additional observations: @twoStraws notes in one of his videos that working with Dates is hard. Very hard. I found a great resource, perhaps this will help you too? See-> Working with Dates In short, this video goes into great detail about parsing and formatting ISO dates and the tricky business of time zones. Once you have a nice `Date` object, you might want to show this date to your user! However, users in England, US, Germany, and Spain all use different formats! This video has great hints how to avoid hard coding various formats and to rely on a user's locale to solve the display problem. Added bonus! Besides this excellent video, Ben created a terrific web site allowing you to interactively test different Swift date formats. See the results as you change format options! Cool. See-> NSDateFormatter.com Please report back if this helps! 2
	@NigelGee HWS+ May '22 How are your getting the data. if you are using JSON decoder then it build in with `JSONDecoder().dateDecodingStrategy = .iso8601` this will return it as a `Date` 2
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