Swift days between two NSDates

Question

I\'m wondering if there is some new and awesome possibility to get the amount of days between two NSDates in Swift / the \"new\" Cocoa?

E.g. like in Ruby I would do:

Answer 1

You could use the following extension:

public extension Date {
    func daysTo(_ date: Date) -> Int? {
        let calendar = Calendar.current

        // Replace the hour (time) of both dates with 00:00
        let date1 = calendar.startOfDay(for: self)
        let date2 = calendar.startOfDay(for: date)

        let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: date1, to: date2)
        return components.day  // This will return the number of day(s) between dates
    }
}

Then, you can call it like this:

startDate.daysTo(endDate)