Date to milliseconds and back to date in Swift

Question

I am taking the current time, in UTC, and putting it in nanaoseconds and then I need to take the nanoseconds and go back to a date in local time. I am able to do get the tim

Answer 1

@Travis solution is right, but it loses milliseconds when a Date is generated. I have added a line to include the milliseconds into the date:

If you don't need this precision, use the Travis solution because it will be faster.

extension Date {

    func toMillis() -> Int64! {
        return Int64(self.timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000)
    }

    init(millis: Int64) {
        self = Date(timeIntervalSince1970: TimeInterval(millis / 1000))
        self.addTimeInterval(TimeInterval(Double(millis % 1000) / 1000 ))
    }

}