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Asked: 2026-05-16T02:58:38+00:00

I’ve been browsing the Apple docs for a while now, but haven’t seen a

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I’ve been browsing the Apple docs for a while now, but haven’t seen a way to get the current Date from a different time zone. Basically, I need to get the current date in US Central Standard Time (CST). I’m pretty sure it’s a combination of NSDate and NSDateFormatter by setting the time zone. I’m sure this is an easy task, but I haven’t been able to figure out the best way to do this.

Is there something I’m missing here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want just display current time for a given zone you need to set NSDateFormatter’s timeZone property:

    [formatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"CST"]];

    If you want an NSDate object containing time from a given zone you need to set default time zone before retrieving that date:

    NSDate* date = [NSDate date];
NSLog(@"%@", [date description]);

[NSTimeZone setDefaultTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"CST"]];
NSDate* nDate = [NSDate date];
NSLog(@"%@", [nDate description]);

//output
2010-08-05 12:32:38 +0300
2010-08-05 04:32:38 -0500
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