How does one subtract hours from an NSDate?

Question

I would like to subtract 4 hours from a date. I read the date string into an NSDate object use the following code:

NSDateFormatter * dateFormatter = [[[NSDat         


        

Answer 1

//in Swift 3
//subtract 3 hours
let calendar = NSCalendar.autoupdatingCurrent
newDate = calendar.date(byAdding:.hour, value: -3, to: originalDate)