Show Am/Pm in Capitals in Swift

Show AM/PM in capitals in swift

You can set your DateFormatter amSymbol and pmSymbol as follow:

Xcode 8.3 • Swift 3.1

let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")
formatter.dateFormat = "h:mm a 'on' MMMM dd, yyyy"
formatter.amSymbol = "AM"
formatter.pmSymbol = "PM"

let dateString = formatter.string(from: Date())
print(dateString)   // "4:44 PM on June 23, 2016\n"

How to print the time with AM/PM format in iPhone?

You could use this document for more information NSDateFormatter Class Reference
.An example could be:

NSDate* date = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy"];

[formatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterFullStyle];
NSLog(@"date=%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);

How to display AM/PM on text in swiftUI?

You can set amSymbol and pmSymbol on DateFormatter and use the a symbol to print it.

lazy var timeFormat: DateFormatter {
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        formatter.dateFormat = "h:mm a"
        formatter.amSymbol = "AM"
        formatter.pmSymbol = "PM"
        return formatter
}()

In my locale (US), even without setting amSymbol and pmSymbol, they appear as "AM"/"PM", but I'm not sure that's true across all locales.

Date not convert in AM/PM Format in swift

set your dateFormatter locale to en-US then try to convert, it's works for me when iPhone's time format is 24 hour:

let date = Date()              
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en-US")
formatter.dateFormat = "hh:mm a"
let time12 = formatter.string(from: date)
print(time12)

output:

01:37 PM

Displaying AM and PM in lower case after date formatting

Unfortunately the standard formatting methods don't let you do that. Nor does Joda. I think you're going to have to process your formatted date by a simple post-format replace.

String str = oldstr.replace("AM", "am").replace("PM","pm");

You could use the replaceAll() method that uses regepxs, but I think the above is perhaps sufficient. I'm not doing a blanket toLowerCase() since that could screw up formatting if you change the format string in the future to contain (say) month names or similar.

EDIT: James Jithin's solution looks a lot better, and the proper way to do this (as noted in the comments)

Get AM/PM for a date time in lowercase using only a datetime format

I would personally format it in two parts: the non-am/pm part, and the am/pm part with ToLower:

string formatted = item.PostedOn.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy a\\t h:mm") +
                   item.PostedOn.ToString("tt").ToLower();

Another option (which I'll investigate in a sec) is to grab the current DateTimeFormatInfo, create a copy, and set the am/pm designators to the lower case version. Then use that format info for the normal formatting. You'd want to cache the DateTimeFormatInfo, obviously...

EDIT: Despite my comment, I've written the caching bit anyway. It probably won't be faster than the code above (as it involves a lock and a dictionary lookup) but it does make the calling code simpler:

string formatted = item.PostedOn.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy a\\t h:mmtt",
                                          GetLowerCaseInfo());

Here's a complete program to demonstrate:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;

public class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy a\\t h:mmtt",
                                                GetLowerCaseInfo());
    }

    private static readonly Dictionary<DateTimeFormatInfo,DateTimeFormatInfo> cache =
        new Dictionary<DateTimeFormatInfo,DateTimeFormatInfo>();

    private static object cacheLock = new object();

    public static DateTimeFormatInfo GetLowerCaseInfo()
    {
        DateTimeFormatInfo current = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat;
        lock (cacheLock)
        {
            DateTimeFormatInfo ret;
            if (!cache.TryGetValue(current, out ret))
            {
                ret = (DateTimeFormatInfo) current.Clone();
                ret.AMDesignator = ret.AMDesignator.ToLower();
                ret.PMDesignator = ret.PMDesignator.ToLower();
                cache[current] = ret;
            }
            return ret;
        }
    }
}

How to get the time in am/pm format iphone NSDateFormatter?

If your time format is in 24hrs please use "HH:mm:ss" format. Please test the code and let me know if it is working for you. I have tested and it is returning "4 PM"

NSString *dats1 = @"16:00:00";
 NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
 [dateFormatter3 setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];  
 [dateFormatter3 setDateFormat:@"HH:mm:ss"]; 
 NSDate *date1 = [dateFormatter3 dateFromString:dats1];
 NSLog(@"date1 : %@", date1); **// Here returning (null)**

 [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"hh:mm a"];
 NSLog(@"Current Date: %@", [formatter stringFromDate:date1]); **// Here also returning (null)**
 [formatter release];

Thanks.

Date Format in Swift

You have to declare 2 different NSDateFormatters, the first to convert the string to a NSDate and the second to print the date in your format.

Try this code:

let dateFormatterGet = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

let dateFormatterPrint = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"

let date: NSDate? = dateFormatterGet.dateFromString("2016-02-29 12:24:26")
print(dateFormatterPrint.stringFromDate(date!))

Swift 3 and higher:

From Swift 3 NSDate class has been changed to Date and NSDateFormatter to DateFormatter.

let dateFormatterGet = DateFormatter()
dateFormatterGet.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

let dateFormatterPrint = DateFormatter()
dateFormatterPrint.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy"

if let date = dateFormatterGet.date(from: "2016-02-29 12:24:26") {
    print(dateFormatterPrint.string(from: date))
} else {
   print("There was an error decoding the string")
}

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