Question

I have an app where I set time zones for various cities around the globe. I have no problem doing this and it works great. When the app first loads, it finds your current location (lat & long) and sets the time zone using the device default time zone. I need to return the default time zone in a string, so I can display it. I don’t want “GMT” or “EDT”, I would like it in the format of “America/New_York” or ‘Europe/London”. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It sounds like you want this:

NSString *timeZoneName = [[NSTimeZone localTimeZone] name];

That returns “America/New_York” for me, here in the EST time zone.

Or given any NSTimeZone *tz you can get its [tz name], which is the conventional name you are looking for (e.g. “Asia/Tokyo” or “Europe/London”.

Look at +[NSTimeZone knownTimeZoneName] for a list of possible names.

I hope that helps.