Extracting hours and minutes from UIDatePicker

Question

I have a UIDatePicker set in time mode, and have a property referencing that date picker. I don't know how to extract hour and minutes components from UIDatePicker when set to time mode in Swift 3. Please help

Answer 1

Even in .time mode the date property returns a Date instance.

Get hour and minute with Calendar and DateComponents

let picker = UIDatePicker()
picker.datePickerMode = .time

let date = picker.date
let components = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.hour, .minute], from: date)
let hour = components.hour!
let minute = components.minute!