Let’s say, you’ve a date ISO8601 date.
2019-04-10T10:30:00+5:30
For date above, Timezone is Asia/Kolkatta
extension TimeZone {
init?(iso8601: String) {
let tz = iso8601.dropFirst(19) // remove yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss part
if tz == "Z" {
self.init(secondsFromGMT: 0)
} else if tz.count == 3 { // assume +/-HH
if let hour = Int(tz) {
self.init(secondsFromGMT: hour * 3600)
return
}
} else if tz.count == 5 { // assume +/-HHMM
if let hour = Int(tz.dropLast(2)), let min = Int(tz.dropFirst(3)) {
self.init(secondsFromGMT: (hour * 60 + min) * 60)
return
}
} else if tz.count == 6 { // assime +/-HH:MM
let parts = tz.components(separatedBy: ":")
if parts.count == 2 {
if let hour = Int(parts[0]), let min = Int(parts[1]) {
self.init(secondsFromGMT: (hour * 60 + min) * 60)
return
}
}
}
return nil
}
}
with above extension, we can easily achieve extraction of timezone from ISO8601 date.
let dateText = "2019-04-10T10:30:00+5:30"
let timeZone = TimeZone(iso8601: dateText)