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.currentCale         


        

Answer 1

Swift 5+

extension Date {
    
    func get(_ type: Calendar.Component)-> String {
        let calendar = Calendar.current
        let t = calendar.component(type, from: self)
        return (t < 10 ? "0\(t)" : t.description)
    }
}

Usage:

print(Date().get(.year)) // => 2020
print(Date().get(.month)) // => 08
print(Date().get(.day)) // => 18