Get UTC time and local time from NSDate object

Question

In objective-c, the following code results in the UTC date time information using the

date

API.

NSDate *currentUTCDate = [NSDate date]

In Swift however,

let date = NSDate.date()

results in local date and time.

I have two questions:

How can I get UTC time and local time (well
date
gives local time) in
NSDate
objects.

How can I get precision for seconds from the
NSDate
object.

EDIT 1: Thanks for all the inputs but I am not looking for

NSDateFormatter

objects or string values. I am simply looking for NSDate objects (however we cook them up but that's the requirement).
See point 1.

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Answer 1

The documentation says that the date method returns a new date set to the current date and time regardless of the language used.

The issue probably sits somewhere where you present the date using NSDateFormatter. NSDate is just a point on a time line. There is no time zones when talking about NSDate. I made a test.

Swift

print(NSDate.date())

After latest updates, the new syntax is:

print(NSDate())

Output: 2014-07-23 17:56:45 +0000

Objective-C

NSLog(@"%@", [NSDate date]);

Output: 2014-07-23 17:58:15 +0000

Result - No difference.

Get UTC time and local time from NSDate object

Swift

Objective-C

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