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

This might be handy for those who want to use the current date in more than one class.

extension String {


func  getCurrentTime() -> String {

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


    let year = calendar.component(.year, from: date)
    let month = calendar.component(.month, from: date)
    let day = calendar.component(.day, from: date)
    let hour = calendar.component(.hour, from: date)
    let minutes = calendar.component(.minute, from: date)
    let seconds = calendar.component(.second, from: date)

    let realTime = "\(year)-\(month)-\(day)-\(hour)-\(minutes)-\(seconds)"

    return realTime
}

}

Usage

        var time = ""
        time = time.getCurrentTime()
        print(time)   // 1900-12-09-12-59