Swift days between two NSDates

Question

I\'m wondering if there is some new and awesome possibility to get the amount of days between two NSDates in Swift / the \"new\" Cocoa?

E.g. like in Ruby I would do:

Answer 1

I translated my Objective-C answer

let start = "2010-09-01"
let end = "2010-09-05"

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"

let startDate:NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(start)
let endDate:NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(end)

let cal = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()


let unit:NSCalendarUnit = .Day

let components = cal.components(unit, fromDate: startDate, toDate: endDate, options: nil)


println(components)

result

<NSDateComponents: 0x10280a8a0>
     Day: 4

The hardest part was that the autocompletion insists fromDate and toDate would be NSDate?, but indeed they must be NSDate! as shown in the reference.

I don't see how a good solution with an operator would look like, as you want to specify the unit differently in each case. You could return the time interval, but than won't you gain much.

Answer 2

The things built into swift are still very basic. As they should be at this early stage. But you can add your own stuff with the risk that comes with overloading operators and global domain functions. They will be local to your module though.

let now = NSDate()
let seventies = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: 0)

// Standard solution still works
let days = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().components(.CalendarUnitDay, 
           fromDate: seventies, toDate: now, options: nil).day

// Flashy swift... maybe...
func -(lhs:NSDate, rhs:NSDate) -> DateRange {
    return DateRange(startDate: rhs, endDate: lhs)
}

class DateRange {
    let startDate:NSDate
    let endDate:NSDate
    var calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
    var days: Int {
        return calendar.components(.CalendarUnitDay, 
               fromDate: startDate, toDate: endDate, options: nil).day
    }
    var months: Int {
        return calendar.components(.CalendarUnitMonth, 
               fromDate: startDate, toDate: endDate, options: nil).month
    }
    init(startDate:NSDate, endDate:NSDate) {
        self.startDate = startDate
        self.endDate = endDate
    }
}

// Now you can do this...
(now - seventies).months
(now - seventies).days

Answer 3

Swift 3 - Days from today until date

func daysUntilDate(endDateComponents: DateComponents) -> Int
    {
        let cal = Calendar.current
        var components = cal.dateComponents([.era, .year, .month, .day], from: NSDate() as Date)
        let today = cal.date(from: components)
        let otherDate = cal.date(from: endDateComponents)

        components = cal.dateComponents([Calendar.Component.day], from: (today! as Date), to: otherDate!)
        return components.day!
    }

Call function like this

// Days from today until date
   var examnDate = DateComponents()
   examnDate.year = 2016
   examnDate.month = 12
   examnDate.day = 15
   let daysCount = daysUntilDate(endDateComponents: examnDate)

Answer 4

I'm going to add my version even though this thread is a year old. My code looks like this:

    var name = txtName.stringValue // Get the users name

    // Get the date components from the window controls
    var dateComponents = NSDateComponents()
    dateComponents.day = txtDOBDay.integerValue
    dateComponents.month = txtDOBMonth.integerValue
    dateComponents.year = txtDOBYear.integerValue

    // Make a Gregorian calendar
    let calendar = NSCalendar(identifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)

    // Get the two dates we need
    var birthdate = calendar?.dateFromComponents(dateComponents)
    let currentDate = NSDate()

    var durationDateComponents = calendar?.components(NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitDay, fromDate: birthdate!, toDate: currentDate, options: nil)

    let numberOfDaysAlive = durationDateComponents?.day

    println("\(numberOfDaysAlive!)")

    txtGreeting.stringValue = "Hello \(name), You have been alive for \(numberOfDaysAlive!) days."

I hope it helps someone.

Cheers,

Answer 5

Erin's method updated to Swift 3, This shows days from today (disregarding time of day)

func daysBetweenDates( endDate: Date) -> Int 
    let calendar: Calendar = Calendar.current 
    let date1 = calendar.startOfDay(for: Date()) 
    let date2 = calendar.startOfDay(for: secondDate) 
    return calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: date1, to: date2).day! 
}

Answer 6

Here is the answer for Swift 3 (tested for IOS 10 Beta)

func daysBetweenDates(startDate: Date, endDate: Date) -> Int
{
    let calendar = Calendar.current
    let components = calendar.components([.day], from: startDate, to: endDate, options: [])
    return components.day!
}

Then you can call it like this

let pickedDate: Date = sender.date
let NumOfDays: Int = daysBetweenDates(startDate: pickedDate, endDate: Date())
    print("Num of Days: \(NumOfDays)")