How do I get hour and minutes from NSDate?

Question

In my application I need to get the hour and minute separately:

NSString *currentHour=[string1 substringWithRange: NSMakeRange(0,2)];
        int currentHour         


        

Answer 1

If you were to use the C library then this could be done:

time_t t;
struct tm * timeinfo;

time (&t);
timeinfo = localtime (&t);

NSLog(@"Hour: %d Minutes: %d", timeinfo->tm_hour, timeinfo->tm_min);

And using Swift:

var t = time_t()
time(&t)
let x = localtime(&t)

println("Hour: \(x.memory.tm_hour) Minutes: \(x.memory.tm_min)")

For further guidance see: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/localtime/