How to get time (hour, minute, second) in Swift 3 using NSDate?

Question

How can you determine the hour, minute and second from NSDate class in Swift 3?

In Swift 2:

let date = NSDate()
let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let components = calendar.components(.Hour, fromDate: date)
let hour = components.hour

Swift 3?

Answer 1

In Swift 3.0 Apple removed 'NS' prefix and made everything simple. Below is the way to get hour, minute and second from 'Date' class (NSDate alternate)

let date = Date()
let calendar = Calendar.current

let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
let minutes = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
let seconds = calendar.component(.second, from: date)
print("hours = \(hour):\(minutes):\(seconds)")

Like these you can get era, year, month, date etc. by passing corresponding.

Answer 2

Swift 4.2 & 5

// *** Create date ***
let date = Date()

// *** create calendar object ***
var calendar = Calendar.current

// *** Get components using current Local & Timezone ***
print(calendar.dateComponents([.year, .month, .day, .hour, .minute], from: date))

// *** define calendar components to use as well Timezone to UTC ***
calendar.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")!

// *** Get All components from date ***
let components = calendar.dateComponents([.hour, .year, .minute], from: date)
print("All Components : \(components)")

// *** Get Individual components from date ***
let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
let minutes = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
let seconds = calendar.component(.second, from: date)
print("\(hour):\(minutes):\(seconds)")

Swift 3.0

// *** Create date ***
let date = Date()

// *** create calendar object ***
var calendar = NSCalendar.current

// *** Get components using current Local & Timezone ***    
print(calendar.dateComponents([.year, .month, .day, .hour, .minute], from: date as Date))

// *** define calendar components to use as well Timezone to UTC ***
let unitFlags = Set<Calendar.Component>([.hour, .year, .minute])
calendar.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")!

// *** Get All components from date ***
let components = calendar.dateComponents(unitFlags, from: date)
print("All Components : \(components)")

// *** Get Individual components from date ***
let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
let minutes = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
let seconds = calendar.component(.second, from: date)
print("\(hour):\(minutes):\(seconds)")

Answer 3

let date = Date()       
let units: Set<Calendar.Component> = [.hour, .day, .month, .year]
let comps = Calendar.current.dateComponents(units, from: date)

Answer 4

Swift 4

    let calendar = Calendar.current
    let time=calendar.dateComponents([.hour,.minute,.second], from: Date())
    print("\(time.hour!):\(time.minute!):\(time.second!)")