I have the following code to write the date metadata in AVAssetWriter which is going all wrong in iOS 13. Need to know if this is an iOS 13 bug or I am doing something wrong.
private var metadataItems:[AVMetadataItem]? {
get {
let locale = Locale.current
var metadata:[AVMetadataItem] = []
let date = Date()
let calendar = Calendar.current
let year = calendar.component(.year, from: date)
let month = calendar.component(.month, from: date)
let day = calendar.component(.day, from: date)
let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
let minute = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
let second = calendar.component(.second, from: date)
let timezone = TimeZone.current
let timezoneStr = timezone.abbreviation()
let creationDateMetaData = AVMutableMetadataItem()
creationDateMetaData.keySpace = AVMetadataKeySpace.common
creationDateMetaData.key = AVMetadataKey.commonKeyCreationDate as NSCopying & NSObjectProtocol
creationDateMetaData.locale = locale
creationDateMetaData.value = String(format:"%04ld-%02ld-%02ld %02ld:%02ld:%02ld %@",year, month, day, hour, minute, second, timezoneStr!) as NSCopying & NSObjectProtocol
metadata.append(creationDateMetaData)
return metadata
}
It shows dates like 1 Jan 1970 or sometimes 2 Sept 469231 as creation date in Photo Library when exported to photo library using PHPhotoLibrary. What am I doing wrong?
I also tried the following:
extension Date {
static let dateFormatter: DateFormatter = iso8601DateFormatter()
fileprivate static func iso8601DateFormatter() -> DateFormatter {
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.calendar = Calendar(identifier: .iso8601)
formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(secondsFromGMT: 0)
formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZZZZ"
return formatter
}
// http://nshipster.com/nsformatter/
// http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html#Date_Format_Patterns
public func iso8601() -> String {
return Date.iso8601DateFormatter().string(from: self)
}
}
And then simply using:
let creationDateMetaData = AVMutableMetadataItem()
creationDateMetaData.keySpace = AVMetadataKeySpace.common
creationDateMetaData.key = AVMetadataKey.commonKeyCreationDate as NSCopying & NSObjectProtocol
creationDateMetaData.value = Date().iso8601() as NSCopying & NSObjectProtocol
But no effect!
Change
let creationDateMetaData = AVMutableMetadataItem()
creationDateMetaData.keySpace = AVMetadataKeySpace.common
creationDateMetaData.key = AVMetadataKey.commonKeyCreationDate as NSCopying & NSObjectProtocol
creationDateMetaData.value = Date().iso8601() as NSCopying & NSObjectProtocol
To
let creationDateMetaData = AVMutableMetadataItem()
creationDateMetaData.keySpace = .common
creationDateMetaData.key = AVMetadataKey.commonKeyCreationDate as NSString
creationDateMetaData.value = Date() as NSDate