How to get the current time as datetime

Question

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?

Answer 1

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) 

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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!