How can I get current GMT 0 in Swift 3?

Question

I'm looking for a way to display the current GMT-0 time.

So far, I've been doing it like:

    let UTCDate = Date()
    let formatter = DateFormatter()
    formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

    let defaultTimeZoneStr = formatter.string(from: UTCDate)

However it returns the current time of the phone.

How can I get the current GMT-0 time using Swift 3?

Requesting current time wouldn't return gmt-0 time for me. I don't understand your point. — Machado, Dec 29 '16 at 16:35
You should change your dateFormat to include the Z (timezone) in your final String otherwise the user or developer would not know it is not local time. — Leo Dabus, Dec 29 '16 at 16:56
You should also set your date formatar locale to en_US_POSIX and calendar to iso8601. — Leo Dabus, Dec 29 '16 at 16:58

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '16 at 16:25

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Before the last line of your code, insert this line:

formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(secondsFromGMT:0)

Or this line:

formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier:"GMT")

answered Dec 29 '16 at 16:25

matt

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How can I get current GMT 0 in Swift 3?

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