Formatted Date strings in Swift and SwiftUI

In this video we are going to explore Swift Dates and how you can format dates as strings for presentation in your Swift / SwiftUI projects.
We will look at the DateFormatter class and it's dateStyle and timeStyle properties.
This will be followed by using fixed format date representations using a format string.
In iOS 14 with SwiftUI we got an easier way to display dates In text views so we will explore the formatter initializer that was introduced.

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Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:33 Date Formatter - DateStyle and TimeStyle
7:48 Date Formatter Fixed Format Date Representation
15:49 iOS 14 - SwiftUI Text view formatter and format options
2248 iOS 15 - SwiftUI Text View style option

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[indiekiduk]

The ones that return locale-aware strings are my favourite because they update automatically if the region settings are changed

[mhfs]

Thank you, Stewart. Learned something new. The date representation in Text().
I struggled a while to figure out how to derive the locale of the user’s device in order to display the date correctly. Not sure whether that was necessary or not.

[DatafoxSoftware]

Thanks Stewart, really practical and complete.

[martinhandl]

Thanks! Fantastic explanation! Makes it really clear now!

[TuanHoang-qjyq]

Thank you very much, Stewart. You make it very clear and easy. This is the topic that I have always been scared off but not any more. Thank you again for all the great works.

[trevormills]

Such a complicated subject but you make it very clear and easy to understand - Thanks 😊

[michaelschafferAT]

3:31 for me, the time was not displayed in the style of my system (Austria). 🤷‍♂

[andresraigoza]

Awesome! I always learn something new from your videos. Thank you so much!

[larschristiansen]

Great video which will avoid many a headache 🙂

[kenturnbull]

What is the difference between using Date() rather than Date.now()? As I have used Date() in other languages, I use it by default and it gives me the right output but am I missing something by not using the .now?

[wendstation]

Hello, may I ask what screen recording software you are using?

[obelix]

The "ah-HA!" moments came from how you broke out iOS 14, and iOS 15 updates. It's great to see how Apple continues to improve ease-of-development. Your breakdown adds tremendous clarity.

However, -5 points for "ContentView". 👎