How do I get hour and minutes from NSDate

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In my application I need to get the hour and minute separately   NSString  currentHour  string1 substringWithRange  NSMakeRange 0 2            int currentHourInNumber  currentHour intValue     Consider string1 contains 11 59 13 AM which is coming from datepicker   Here if I use above code  it s okay to get hour if it s greater than 9  Else I need to change NSMakeRange 0 1  to get hour between 1 to 9   Are there any methods to get the hour  minutes  etc   Thanks in advance  please provide me sample code

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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

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With iOS 8  Apple introduced a helper method to retrieve the hour  minute  second and nanosecond from an NSDate object   Objective-C  NSDate  date    NSDate currentDate   NSInteger hour   0  NSInteger minute   0  NSCalendar  currentCalendar    NSCalendar currentCalendar    currentCalendar getHour  amp hour minute  amp minute second NULL nanosecond NULL fromDate date   NSLog   the hour is  ld and minute is  ld    long hour   long minute     Swift  let date   NSDate   var hour   0 var minute   0 let calendar   NSCalendar currentCalendar   if  available iOS 8 0           calendar getHour  amp hour  minute   amp minute  second  nil  nanosecond  nil  fromDate  date      print  the hour is   hour  and minute is   minute

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Use an NSDateFormatter to convert string1 into an NSDate  then get the required NSDateComponents   Obj-C   NSDateFormatter  dateFormatter     NSDateFormatter alloc  init    dateFormatter setDateFormat    lt your date format goes here    NSDate  date    dateFormatter dateFromString string1   NSCalendar  calendar    NSCalendar currentCalendar   NSDateComponents  components    calendar components  NSCalendarUnitHour   NSCalendarUnitMinute  fromDate date   NSInteger hour    components hour   NSInteger minute    components minute     Swift 1 and 2   let dateFormatter   NSDateFormatter   dateFormatter dateFormat    Your date Format  let date   dateFormatter dateFromString string1  let calendar   NSCalendar currentCalendar   let comp   calendar components   Hour   Minute   fromDate  date  let hour   comp hour let minute   comp minute   Swift 3   let dateFormatter   DateFormatter   dateFormatter dateFormat    Your date Format  let date   dateFormatter date from  string1  let calendar   Calendar current let comp   calendar dateComponents   hour   minute   from  date  let hour   comp hour let minute   comp minute   More about the dateformat is on the official unicode site

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Swift 2 0       let dateNow   NSDate       let calendar   NSCalendar currentCalendar       let hour   calendar component NSCalendarUnit Hour  fromDate  dateNow      let minute   calendar component NSCalendarUnit Minute  fromDate  dateNow      print String hour       print String minute     Please do take note of the cast to String in the print statement  you can easily assign that value to variables  like this   var hoursString   String hour  var minutesString   String minute    Then you can concatenate values  like this   var compoundString      hour    minute   print compoundString

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If you only need it for presenting as a string the following code is much easier  NSDateFormatter  formatter     NSDateFormatter alloc  init    formatter setDateFormat   HH mm     NSString  startTimeString    formatter stringFromDate startTimePicker date

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If you were to use the C library then this could be done   time t t  struct tm   timeinfo   time   amp t   timeinfo   localtime   amp t    NSLog   Hour   d Minutes   d   timeinfo- gt tm hour  timeinfo- gt tm min     And using Swift   var t   time t   time  amp t  let x   localtime  amp t   println  Hour    x memory tm hour  Minutes    x memory tm min      For further guidance see  http   www cplusplus com reference ctime localtime

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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

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NSDateComponents  All you need can be found here  https   developer apple com library content documentation Cocoa Conceptual DatesAndTimes Articles dtCalendars html

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