Set text color and font for UIDatePicker in iOS8/Swift

Question

I\'ve been having trouble trying to set the UIDatePicker font and color. Everything else in my app was fairly straightforward to adjust except

Answer 1

I believe this is the definitive solution for countdown timers.
It's an expansion of yildirimosman's answer.

//text color
datePicker.setValue(UIColor.whiteColor(), forKey: "textColor")
//picker background
datePicker.subviews[0].subviews[0].backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor() //the picker's own background view
//dividers
datePicker.subviews[0].subviews[1].backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
datePicker.subviews[0].subviews[2].backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
//labels: "hours" and "min"
datePicker.subviews[0].subviews[3].setValue(UIColor.lightGrayColor(), forKey: "textColor")
datePicker.subviews[0].subviews[4].setValue(UIColor.lightGrayColor(), forKey: "textColor")
//refresh the tableview (to force initial row textColor to change to white)
datePicker.subviews[0].setNeedsLayout()
datePicker.subviews[0].layoutIfNeeded()