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

private func days(actual day1:[Int],expect day2:[Int]) -> Int {

        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"

        let first = "\(day1[2])-\(day1[1])-\(day1[0])"
        let firstDate = dateFormatter.date(from:first)!
        let last = "\(day2[2])-\(day2[1])-\(day2[0])"
        let lastDate = dateFormatter.date(from:last)!

        let currentCalendar = NSCalendar.current

        let components = currentCalendar.dateComponents([.day], from: firstDate, to: lastDate)

        return components.day!
    }

Another approach to compare with components of day month year

Usage:

Input the dates in following format

[dd, mm, yyyy]
[9, 6, 2017]
[6, 6, 2017]