在Swift中获取时区名称（如缩写）

Question

I don't understand, all of it's sudden, below code started giving timezone abbreviation name instead of timezone actual name.

let timezone = TimeZone.current.identifier

Result: GMT

Expecting: Asia/Kolkata

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Note: GMT does not represent timezone for Asia/Kolkata. (It should give you IST) You should check your device/simulator time zone settings. If you are testing simulator then check your (mac) system time zone.

Your snapshot indicates - you are trying with Playground editor. Try to set location/time zone for your Mac system.

Mac System ► (Go to) System Preference ► Date Time ► Time Zone (Here you can see your system time zone)

I tried following code with given results for IST/India:

print("**> TimeZone.current.identifier - \(TimeZone.current.identifier)\n")
// TimeZone.current.identifier - Asia/Kolkata

print("**> TimeZone.current.description - \(TimeZone.current.description)\n")
// TimeZone.current.description - Asia/Kolkata (current)

print("**> TimeZone.current.debugDescription - \(TimeZone.current.debugDescription)\n")
// TimeZone.current.debugDescription - Asia/Kolkata (current)