How to get time (hour, minute, second) in Swift 3 using NSDate?

Question

How can you determine the hour, minute and second from NSDate class in Swift 3?

In Swift 2:

let date = NSDate()
let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCale         


        

Answer 1

Swift 4

    let calendar = Calendar.current
    let time=calendar.dateComponents([.hour,.minute,.second], from: Date())
    print("\(time.hour!):\(time.minute!):\(time.second!)")

Answer 2

Swift 4.2 & 5

// *** Create date ***
let date = Date()

// *** create calendar object ***
var calendar = Calendar.current

// *** Get components using current Local & Timezone ***
print(calendar.dateComponents([.year, .month, .day, .hour, .minute], from: date))

// *** define calendar components to use as well Timezone to UTC ***
calendar.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")!

// *** Get All components from date ***
let components = calendar.dateComponents([.hour, .year, .minute], from: date)
print("All Components : \(components)")

// *** Get Individual components from date ***
let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
let minutes = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
let seconds = calendar.component(.second, from: date)
print("\(hour):\(minutes):\(seconds)")

Swift 3.0

// *** Create date ***
let date = Date()

// *** create calendar object ***
var calendar = NSCalendar.current

// *** Get components using current Local & Timezone ***    
print(calendar.dateComponents([.year, .month, .day, .hour, .minute], from: date as Date))

// *** define calendar components to use as well Timezone to UTC ***
let unitFlags = Set<Calendar.Component>([.hour, .year, .minute])
calendar.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")!

// *** Get All components from date ***
let components = calendar.dateComponents(unitFlags, from: date)
print("All Components : \(components)")

// *** Get Individual components from date ***
let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
let minutes = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
let seconds = calendar.component(.second, from: date)
print("\(hour):\(minutes):\(seconds)")

Answer 3

This might be handy for those who want to use the current date in more than one class.

extension String {


func  getCurrentTime() -> String {

    let date = Date()
    let calendar = Calendar.current


    let year = calendar.component(.year, from: date)
    let month = calendar.component(.month, from: date)
    let day = calendar.component(.day, from: date)
    let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
    let minutes = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
    let seconds = calendar.component(.second, from: date)

    let realTime = "\(year)-\(month)-\(day)-\(hour)-\(minutes)-\(seconds)"

    return realTime
}

}

Usage

        var time = ""
        time = time.getCurrentTime()
        print(time)   // 1900-12-09-12-59

Answer 4

In Swift 3 you can do this,

let date = Date()
let hour = Calendar.current.component(.hour, from: date)