Swift - Getting Date from Month, Day, Year Components

Question

How do you convert a DateComponents to a Date Object. Currently, I have following code

Calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2018, month: 1, day: 15))

but I'm getting an error stating "No 'date' candidates produce the expected contextual result type 'Date'

Sorry for the basic question, but I'm still struggling with how to work with dates in Swift

Answer 1

You cannot call date(from on the type. You have to use an instance of the calendar, either the current calendar

Calendar.current.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2018, month: 1, day: 15))

or a fixed one

let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2018, month: 1, day: 15))