Getting the difference between two Dates (months/days/hours/minutes/seconds) in Swift

Question

I am trying to get the difference between the current date as NSDate() and a date from a PHP time(); call for example: NSDate(timeIntervalSin

Answer 1

Swift 5.1 • iOS 13

You can use RelativeDateFormatter that has been introduced by Apple in iOS 13.

let exampleDate = Date().addingTimeInterval(-15000)

let formatter = RelativeDateTimeFormatter()
formatter.unitsStyle = .full
let relativeDate = formatter.localizedString(for: exampleDate, relativeTo: Date())

print(relativeDate) // 4 hours ago

See How to show a relative date and time using RelativeDateTimeFormatter.