I want to show a date as Saturday June 13.
If the date is current day it should display Today like that Tomorrow, Yesterday.
I couldn't achieve both.
guard let date = Date(fromString: "16 September 2020",
format: "dd MMMM yyyy") else { return nil }
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateStyle = .medium
dateFormatter.doesRelativeDateFormatting = true
header.titleLabel.text = dateFormatter.string(from: date)
For the above code I can show date as Today Tomorrow Yesterday but other dates are not showing Saturday June 13. I tried to apply date format dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE, MMM d"
for the same dateFormatter
it returned nothing.
The DateFormatter doesn't behave well when setting doesRelativeDateFormatting = true
and trying to apply a custom format at the same time. So the easiest solution is to use the format given by a Style
and a Locale
let relativeDateFormatter = DateFormatter()
relativeDateFormatter.timeStyle = .none
relativeDateFormatter.dateStyle = .medium
relativeDateFormatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_GB")
relativeDateFormatter.doesRelativeDateFormatting = true
Example
let inputFormatter = DateFormatter()
inputFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
let dates = ["2020-09-01", "2020-09-15", "2020-09-16", "2020-09-30"].compactMap { inputFormatter.date(from: $0)}
for date in dates {
print(relativeDateFormatter.string(from: date))
}
1 Sep 2020
Yesterday
Today
30 Sep 2020
Now if you want to apply a custom format I have not found a solution for this when using the same DateFormatter instance so we need to create a new one for the custom format and use it together with a check so we apply the custom format only when it is not Today etc
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE, MMM dd"
for date in dates {
let string = relativeDateFormatter.string(from: date)
if let _ = string.rangeOfCharacter(from: .decimalDigits) {
print(dateFormatter.string(from: date))
} else {
print(string)
}
}
Tuesday, Sep 01
Yesterday
Today
Wednesday, Sep 30