Comparing NSDates without time component

Question

In a swift playground, I have been using

NSDate.date() 

But, this always appears with the time element appended. For my app I need to ignor

Answer 1

I wrote the following method to compare two dates by borrowing from Ashley Mills solution. It compares two dates and returns true if the two dates are the same (stripped of time).

func compareDate(date1:NSDate, date2:NSDate) -> Bool {
    let order = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().compareDate(date1, toDate: date2,
        toUnitGranularity: .Day)
    switch order {
    case .OrderedSame:
        return true
    default:
        return false
    }
}

And it is called like this:

if compareDate(today, date2: anotherDate) {
    // The two dates are on the same day.
}