How to get the current time as datetime

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Just started with the playground  I m trying to create a simple app   I ve created a date object like this   var date   NSDate     How can I get the current hour  In other languages I can do something like this   var hour   date hour   But I can t find any properties methods like that  I ve found a method  dateWithCalendarFormat  Should I use that  If so  HOW

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Swift makes it really easy to create and use extensions. I create a sharedCode.swift file and put enums, extensions, and other fun stuff in it. I created a NSDate extension to add some typical functionality which is laborious and ugly to type over and over again:

extension NSDate
{
    func hour() -> Int
    {
        //Get Hour
        let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
        let components = calendar.components(.Hour, fromDate: self)
        let hour = components.hour

        //Return Hour
        return hour
    }


    func minute() -> Int
    {
        //Get Minute
        let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
        let components = calendar.components(.Minute, fromDate: self)
        let minute = components.minute

        //Return Minute
        return minute
    }

    func toShortTimeString() -> String
    {
        //Get Short Time String
        let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
        formatter.timeStyle = .ShortStyle
        let timeString = formatter.stringFromDate(self)

        //Return Short Time String
        return timeString
    }
}

using this extension you can now do something like:

        //Get Current Date
        let currentDate = NSDate()

        //Test Extensions in Log
        NSLog("(Current Hour = \(currentDate.hour())) (Current Minute = \(currentDate.minute())) (Current Short Time String = \(currentDate.toShortTimeString()))")

Which for 11:51 AM would write out:

(Current Hour = 11) (Current Minute = 51) (Current Short Time String = 11:51 AM)

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You could also use NSDateFormatter s convenience method  e g    func printTimestamp       let timestamp   NSDateFormatter localizedStringFromDate NSDate    dateStyle   MediumStyle  timeStyle   ShortStyle    print timestamp    printTimestamp      Prints  Sep 9  2014  4 30 AM

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Swift 4  let dateFormatter   DateFormatter   DateFormatter       dateFormatter dateFormat    yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss  dateFormatter dateFormat    yyyy-MMM-dd HH mm ss  let date   Date   let dateString   dateFormatter string from  date  let interval   date timeIntervalSince1970   OUTPUT  2018-May-01 10 41 31

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SWIFT 4   extension Date       func hour   - gt  Int             Get Hour     let calendar   Calendar current     let components   calendar component  hour  from  self      let hour   components        Return Hour     return hour             func minute   - gt  Int             Get Minute     let calendar   Calendar current     let components   calendar component  minute  from  self      let minute   components        Return Minute     return minute

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In Swift 3       let date   Date       let calendar   Calendar current        let hour   calendar component  hour  from  date

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I know there are a lot of answers but I think that mine may be more convenient to many  extension String       init epoch  Double            let date   Date timeIntervalSince1970  epoch           let dateFormatter   DateFormatter           dateFormatter dateFormat    dd MM yyyy HH mm ssZZZ           self   dateFormatter string from  date

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Expanding upon noiiv s epically concise solution  here is the even more concise Swift 3 4 implementation   Swift 3 4  let components   Calendar current dateComponents   hour   minute   from  Date    let  hour  minute     components hour  components minute    Also  expanding upon Leo Dabus s extension we can have   extension Date        func components   components  Set lt Calendar Component gt   - gt  DateComponents           return Calendar current dateComponents components  from  self             func component   component  Calendar Component  - gt  Int           return Calendar current component component  from  self             var era  Int   return component  era        var year  Int   return component  year        var month  Int   return component  month        var day  Int   return component  day        var hour  Int   return component  hour        var minute  Int   return component  minute        var second  Int   return component  second        var weekday  Int   return component  weekday        var weekdayOrdinal  Int   return component  weekdayOrdinal        var quarter  Int   return component  quarter        var weekOfMonth  Int   return component  weekOfMonth        var weekOfYear  Int   return component  weekOfYear        var yearForWeekOfYear  Int   return component  yearForWeekOfYear        var nanosecond  Int   return component  nanosecond        var calendar  Calendar    return components   calendar   calendar       var timeZone  TimeZone    return components   timeZone   timeZone        And use it like so   let date   Date   let  hour  minute     date hour  date minute

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Swift 5      func printTimestamp         let timestamp   DateFormatter localizedString from  NSDate   as Date  dateStyle   medium  timeStyle   short      print timestamp      and Call function printTimestamp

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You can use Swift4 or Swift 5 bellow like   let date   Date   let dateFormatter   DateFormatter   dateFormatter dateFormat    yyyy-MM-dd  let current date   dateFormatter string from  date  print  current date-- gt   current date    output like   2020-03-02

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You can get from Dateformatter  let dateFormatter   DateFormatter   dateFormatter dateFormat    dd MM yyyy  let dateString   dateFormatter string from Date    print dateString

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Incase you need to format the answer in a particular way  you can easily use this method  the default    dd-MM-yyyy      extension Date       func today format   String    dd-MM-yyyy   - gt  String        let date   Date         let formatter   DateFormatter         formatter dateFormat   format       return formatter string from  date           Getting today s date can now be done using   Date   today   or Date   today  dd MM yyyy

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With Swift 5  Foundation offers many ways to get the hour value from a Date object  According to your needs  you may choose one of the four following Playground code snippets      1  Using Calendar dateComponents   from   method  Calendar has a method called dateComponents   from    dateComponents   from   has the following declaration   func dateComponents   components  Set lt Calendar Component gt   from date  Date  - gt  DateComponents      Returns all the date components of a date  using the calendar time zone    Usage   import Foundation  let date   Date   let dateComponents   Calendar current dateComponents   hour   from  date  let hour   dateComponents hour print String describing  hour      may print  Optional 13       2  Using Calendar component   from   method  Calendar has a method called component   from    component   from   has the following declaration       Returns the value for one component of a date    func component   component  Calendar Component  from date  Date  - gt  Int   Usage   import Foundation  let date   Date   let hour   Calendar current component  hour  from  date  print hour     may print  13      3  Using DateFormatter dateFormat property  DateFormatter has a property called dateFormat  dateFormat has the following declaration   var dateFormat  String    get set        The date format string used by the receiver    Usage   import Foundation  let date   Date   let dateFormatter   DateFormatter   dateFormatter dateFormat    HH  let hour   dateFormatter string from  date  print hour     may print  13      4  Using Dateformatter setLocalizedDateFormatFromTemplate     method  Dateformatter has a method called setLocalizedDateFormatFromTemplate      setLocalizedDateFormatFromTemplate     has the following declaration   func setLocalizedDateFormatFromTemplate   dateFormatTemplate  String       Sets the date format from a template using the specified locale for the receiver    Usage   import Foundation  let date   Date   let dateFormatter   DateFormatter   dateFormatter setLocalizedDateFormatFromTemplate  HH   let hour   dateFormatter string from  date  print hour     may print  13

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You can create an extension on Date  that way you can easily call it in other files  Here is an example of a date extension that uses a computed property    It will print it out   Today  4 55 PM   extension Date        var formatter  DateFormatter            let formatter   DateFormatter           formatter dateStyle    short         formatter timeStyle    short         formatter doesRelativeDateFormatting   true          return formatter

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Tested with Swift 4 Getting the Current Date and Time You can get the current date and time as simply as this  let currentDateTime   Date    However  Date is a 64-bit floating point number measuring the number of seconds since the reference date of January 1  2001 at 00 00 00 UTC  I can see that number for the current datetime by using Date   timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate  At the time of this writing  it returned 497626515 185066  probably not exactly what you are looking for  Keep reading  Creating Another Date and Time Method 1 If you know the number of seconds before or after the reference date  you can use that  let someOtherDateTime   Date timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate  -123456789 0     Feb 2  1997  10 26 AM  Method 2 Of course  it would be easier to use things like years  months  days and hours  rather than relative seconds  to make a Date  For this you can use DateComponents to specify the components and then Calendar to create the date  The Calendar gives the Date context  Otherwise  how would it know what time zone or calendar to express it in     Specify date components var dateComponents   DateComponents   dateComponents year   1980 dateComponents month   7 dateComponents day   11 dateComponents timeZone   TimeZone abbreviation   quot JST quot      Japan Standard Time dateComponents hour   8 dateComponents minute   34     Create date from components let userCalendar   Calendar current    user calendar let someDateTime   userCalendar date from  dateComponents   Other time zone abbreviations can be found here  If you leave that blank  then the default is to use the user s time zone  Method 3 The most succinct way  but not necessarily the best  could be to use DateFormatter  let formatter   DateFormatter   formatter dateFormat    quot yyyy MM dd HH mm quot  let someDateTime   formatter date from   quot 2016 10 08 22 31 quot    The Unicode technical standards show other formats that DateFormatter supports  Displaying the Date and Time Method 1 If you want to just display certain components of the date or time you can use CalendarUnit to specify the components that you want to extract from Date     get the current date and time let currentDateTime   Date       get the user s calendar let userCalendar   Calendar current     choose which date and time components are needed let requestedComponents  Set lt Calendar Component gt           year       month       day       hour       minute       second       get the components let dateTimeComponents   userCalendar dateComponents requestedComponents  from  currentDateTime      now the components are available dateTimeComponents year      2016 dateTimeComponents month     10 dateTimeComponents day       8 dateTimeComponents hour      22 dateTimeComponents minute    42 dateTimeComponents second    17  See this answer also  Method 2 Method 1 gave you the components  but it would be a lot of work to format those numbers for every style  language  and region  And you don t need to  This has already been done for you with the DateFormatter class     get the current date and time let currentDateTime   Date       initialize the date formatter and set the style let formatter   DateFormatter   formatter timeStyle    medium formatter dateStyle    long     get the date time String from the date object formatter string from  currentDateTime     October 8  2016 at 10 48 53 PM  Here is a continuation of the above code that shows more formatting options      quot 10 8 16  10 52 PM quot  formatter timeStyle    short formatter dateStyle    short formatter string from  currentDateTime       quot Oct 8  2016  10 52 30 PM quot  formatter timeStyle    medium formatter dateStyle    medium formatter string from  currentDateTime       quot October 8  2016 at 10 52 30 PM GMT 8 quot  formatter timeStyle    long formatter dateStyle    long formatter string from  currentDateTime       quot October 8  2016 quot  formatter timeStyle    none formatter dateStyle    long formatter string from  currentDateTime       quot 10 52 30 PM quot  formatter timeStyle    medium formatter dateStyle    none formatter string from  currentDateTime   Keep in mind  though  that this is for English with the region set to the US  For other languages and regions the formatting will look different  Further study  How to work with dates and times in Swift 3  part 1  Dates  Calendars  and DateComponents How to work with dates and times in Swift 3  part 2  DateFormatter How to work with dates and times in Swift 3  part 3  Date arithmetic

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Swift 2 answer      let date   NSDate    let calendar   NSCalendar currentCalendar    let components   calendar components   Hour   Minute   fromDate  date   let hour   components hour  let minutes   components minute

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for only date in specific format      let dateFormatter1   NSDateFormatter       dateFormatter1 dateStyle    MediumStyle     dateFormatter1 timeStyle    NoStyle     dateFormatter1 dateFormat    dd-MM-yyyy      let date   dateFormatter1 stringFromDate NSDate

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func getCurrentDate   - gt  Date       let date   Date       let dateFormatter   DateFormatter       dateFormatter dateFormat    yyyy-MM-dd      let dateInString    dateFormatter string from  date      let dateinDate   dateFormatter date from  dateInString      return dateinDate

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You can use in swift 4 or 5 like bellow  let date   Date   let df   DateFormatter   df dateFormat    yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss  let dateString   df string from  date    Ouput will be like bellow  2019-12-20 09 40 08

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One line Swift 5 2 let date   String DateFormatter localizedString from  NSDate   as Date  dateStyle   medium  timeStyle   short

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Update for Swift 3   let date   Date   let calendar   Calendar current let hour   calendar component  hour  from  date  let minutes   calendar component  minute  from  date      I do this   let date   NSDate   let calendar   NSCalendar currentCalendar   let components   calendar components  CalendarUnitHour    CalendarUnitMinute  fromDate  date  let hour   components hour let minutes   components minute   See the same question in objective-c How do I get hour and minutes from NSDate   Compared to Nate   s answer  you   ll get numbers with this one  not strings    pick your choice

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You can try this  func getTime   - gt   hour Int  min Int  sec Int            let currentDateTime   NSDate           let calendar   NSCalendar currentCalendar           let components   calendar components   Hour  Minute  Second   fromDate  currentDateTime          let hour   components hour         let min   components minute         let sec   components second         return  hour min sec          Now call that method and receive the date with hour min and second      let currentTime   self getTime       print  Hour    currentTime hour  Min    currentTime min  Sec    currentTime sec

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Swift 3   static func currentTime   - gt  String       let date   Date       let calendar   Calendar current     let hour   calendar component  hour  from  date      let minutes   calendar component  minute  from  date      return    hour    minutes       PS - not sure what the question means exactly by getting current time  and hour  as date time  but hopefully the above should explain enough to answer the question

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Works with Swift 5  Xcode 10  amp  Xcode 11   from France UTC   func getCurrentDateTime         let now   Date       let formatter   DateFormatter       formatter locale   Locale identifier   fr FR       formatter dateFormat    EEEE dd MMMM YYYY HH mm      myLabel text   formatter string from  now      myLabel font   UIFont name   HelveticaNeue-Light   size  12      myLabel textColor   UIColor black     If you want to display only the date  set formatter dateFormat  formatter dateFormat    EEEE dd MMMM YYYY    To display only hours  change formatter dateFormat to  formatter dateFormat    HH mm    Don t forget to add getCurrentDateTime   on viewDidLoad

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Here is the SWIFT extension to get your current device location time  GMT    func getGMTTimeDate   - gt  Date      var comp  DateComponents   Calendar current dateComponents   year   month   day   hour   minute   from  self     comp calendar   Calendar current    comp timeZone   TimeZone abbreviation   GMT       return Calendar current date from  comp       Get now time -  Date   getGMTTimeDate

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Using Date Formatter -Swift 3 0    Date let dateFormatter   DateFormatter   dateFormatter dateStyle    medium let dateString    Current date is    dateFormatter string from  Date   as Date    labelfordate text   String dateString      Time     let timeFormatter   DateFormatter   timeFormatter timeStyle    medium let timeString    Current time is    timeFormatter string from  Date   as Date    labelfortime text   String timeString    Update Date and Time Every Seconds  override func viewDidLoad     super viewDidLoad    timer   Timer scheduledTimer timeInterval  1  target  self  selector   selector DateAndTime action   userInfo  nil  repeats  true             func action               Date     let dateFormatter   DateFormatter       dateFormatter dateStyle    medium     let dateString    Current date is    dateFormatter string from  Date   as Date        labelfordate text   String dateString          Time     let timeFormatter   DateFormatter       timeFormatter timeStyle    medium     let timeString    Current time is    timeFormatter string from  Date   as Date        labelfortime text   String timeString           Note  DateAndTime in the Timer code is the Class name

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Xcode 8 2 1     Swift 3 0 2  extension Date       var hour  Int   return Calendar autoupdatingCurrent component  hour  from  self          let date   Date            Mar 16  2017  3 43 PM  let hour   date hour      15

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if you just need the hour of the day  let calendar   NSCalendar currentCalendar   var hour   calendar component  Hour fromDate  NSDate

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