Swift 3 - find number of calendar days between two dates

Question

The way I did this in Swift 2.3 was:

let currentDate         = NSDate()
let currentCalendar     = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()

var startDate : NSDate?
var e         


        

Answer 1

Found this on a different thread, but it was finally the most simple solution for me using Swift 4:

let previousDate = ENTER DATE HERE
let now = Date()

let formatter = DateComponentsFormatter()
formatter.unitsStyle = .brief // May delete the word brief to let Xcode show you the other options
formatter.allowedUnits = [.month, .day, .hour]
formatter.maximumUnitCount = 1   // Show just one unit (i.e. 1d vs. 1d 6hrs)

let stringDate = formatter.string(from: previousDate, to: now)