How to change date picker date to a NSDate type but with zero seconds

Question

I have a date picker that returns me a NSdate value. And I want to have a date value of seconds set to 0. I have the code to do it in objective c as

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Answer 1

It is almost identical in Swift:

let date = NSDate()
let ti = floor(date.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate/60.0) * 60.0
let date1 = NSDate(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: ti)

The same can be achieved with NSCalendar methods:

let cal = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
var date2 : NSDate?
cal.rangeOfUnit(.Minute, startDate: &date2, interval: nil, forDate: date)

and this has the great advantage that it can easily be adapted for larger time units like days, months, etc. which do not have a fixed length (e.g. a day can have 23, 24, or 25 hours in regions with daylight saving time).