How to calculate time in hours between two dates in iOS

Question

How can I calculate the time elapsed in hours between two times (possibly occurring on different days) in iOS?

Answer 1

Checkout : It takes care of daylight saving, leap year as it used iOS calendar to calculate. You can change the string and conditions to includes minutes with hours and days.

+(NSString*)remaningTime:(NSDate*)startDate endDate:(NSDate*)endDate {

    NSDateComponents *components;
    NSInteger days;
    NSInteger hour;
    NSInteger minutes;
    NSString *durationString;

    components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components: NSCalendarUnitDay|NSCalendarUnitHour|NSCalendarUnitMinute
                                                 fromDate: startDate toDate: endDate options: 0];
    days = [components day];
    hour = [components hour];
    minutes = [components minute];

    if (days > 0) {

        if (days > 1) {
            durationString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d days", days];
        }
        else {
            durationString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d day", days];
        }
        return durationString;
    }

    if (hour > 0) {

        if (hour > 1) {
            durationString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d hours", hour];
        }
        else {
            durationString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d hour", hour];
        }
        return durationString;
    }

    if (minutes > 0) {

        if (minutes > 1) {
            durationString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d minutes", minutes];
        }
        else {
            durationString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d minute", minutes];
        }
        return durationString;
    }

    return @"";
}