title: NSDate ignore timezone
body: <p>How can you ignore the timezone altogether with NSDate?</p>
  
  <p>Say I set the date of an important event to be <code>2016-03-11T23:00:00.701-05:00</code></p>
  
  <p>All I want is to return 2016-03-11 23:00 regardless of where you are or what timezone you are in. Basically if I say that event is going to happen on a particular date, I don't want it to change at all on anyone's phone/device.</p>
  
  <pre><code>let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
  
  formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"
  if let parsedDate = formatter.dateFromString(rawDate) {
     return parsedDate
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Currently if I set it to a timezone that is +4 hrs, the event date displayed is incorrect. If its -4 hrs then the time portion is wrong.</p>
  
  <p>Apart from the obvious as just setting the event date as a String, I wanted to keep it as an actual Date so the sorting would be easier (ascending/descending).</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas on how to correctly format and ignoring timezones?</p>