From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31660946/convert-string-to-date-swift
let strTime = "2015-07-27 19:29:50 +0000" let formatter = NSDateFormatter() formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z" formatter.dateFromString(strTime) // Returns "Jul 27, 2015, 12:29 PM" PST