How do I get hour and minutes from NSDate?

Question

In my application I need to get the hour and minute separately:

NSString *currentHour=[string1 substringWithRange: NSMakeRange(0,2)];
        int currentHour         


        

Answer 1

This seems to me to be what the question is after, no need for formatters:

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components = [calendar components:(NSCalendarUnitHour | NSCalendarUnitMinute) fromDate:date];
NSInteger hour = [components hour];
NSInteger minute = [components minute];

Answer 2

Swift 2.0

You can do following thing to get hours and minute from a date :

let dateFromat = NSDateFormatter()
dateFromat.dateFormat = "hh:mm a"
let date = dateFromat.dateFromString(string1) // In your case its string1
print(date) // you will get - 11:59 AM