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

Swift 2.0

    let dateNow = NSDate()
    let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
    let hour = calendar.component(NSCalendarUnit.Hour, fromDate: dateNow)
    let minute = calendar.component(NSCalendarUnit.Minute, fromDate: dateNow)
    print(String(hour))
    print(String(minute))

Please do take note of the cast to String in the print statement, you can easily assign that value to variables, like this:

var hoursString = String(hour)
var minutesString = String(minute)

Then you can concatenate values like this:

var compoundString = "\(hour):\(minute)"
print(compoundString)