Convert Date to Integer in Swift

Question

I am updating some of my old Swift 2 answers to Swift 3. My answer to this question, though, is not easy to update since the question specifically asks for NSDate

Answer 1

timeIntervalSince1970 is a relevant start time, convenient and provided by Apple.

If u want the int value to be smaller, u could choose the relevant start time you like

extension Date{
    var intVal: Int?{
        if let d = Date.coordinate{
             let inteval = Date().timeIntervalSince(d)
             return Int(inteval)
        }
        return nil
    }


    // today's time is close to `2020-04-17 05:06:06`

    static let coordinate: Date? = {
        let dateFormatCoordinate = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatCoordinate.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
        if let d = dateFormatCoordinate.date(from: "2020-04-17 05:06:06") {
            return d
        }
        return nil
    }()
}


extension Int{
    var dateVal: Date?{
        // convert Int to Double
        let interval = Double(self)
        if let d = Date.coordinate{
            return  Date(timeInterval: interval, since: d)
        }
        return nil
    }
}

Use like this:

    let d = Date()

    print(d)
    // date to integer, you need to unwrap the optional
    print(d.intVal)

    // integer to date
    print(d.intVal?.dateVal)