NSDate beginning of day and end of day

Question

    -(NSDate *)beginningOfDay:(NSDate *)date
{
    NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    NSDateComponents *components = [cal components:( NSMonthCalend         


        

Answer 1

Calendar units should be thought of as intervals. As of iOS 10 Calendar has some nice methods for this

let day = Calendar.autoupdatingCurrent.dateInterval(of: .day, for: Date())
day?.end
day?.start

You can use the same method, to get the start/end of any calendar component (week/month/year etc)

Answer 2

Swift 5.1 - XCode 11 with Date class instead of NSDate and Calender instead of NSCalender

extension Date {

    var startOfDay : Date {
        let calendar = Calendar.current
        let unitFlags = Set<Calendar.Component>([.year, .month, .day])
        let components = calendar.dateComponents(unitFlags, from: self)
        return calendar.date(from: components)!
   }

    var endOfDay : Date {
        var components = DateComponents()
        components.day = 1
        let date = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: components, to: self.startOfDay)
        return (date?.addingTimeInterval(-1))!
    }
}

Usage:

    let myDate = Date()
    let startOfDate = myDate.startOfDay
    let endOfDate = myDate.endOfDay

Answer 3

Swift 5 Simple and more precise answer.

Start time: 00:00:00

End time: 23:59:59.5

let date = Date() // current date or replace with a specific date
let calendar = Calendar.current
let startTime = calendar.startOfDay(for: date)
let endTime = calendar.date(bySettingHour: 23, minute: 59, second: 59, of: date)

Extra

let yesterday = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .day, value: -1, to: noon)!
let tomorrow = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .day, value: 1, to: noon)!
let specificDate = Date("2020-01-01")

extension Date {
    init(_ dateString:String) {
        let dateStringFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateStringFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
        dateStringFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en_US_POSIX") as Locale
        let date = dateStringFormatter.date(from: dateString)!
        self.init(timeInterval:0, since:date)
    }
}

Answer 4

For swift 4

    var calendar = Calendar.current
    calendar.timeZone = NSTimeZone(abbreviation: "UTC")! as TimeZone
    let dateAtMidnight = calendar.startOfDay(for: Date())

    //For End Date
    var components = DateComponents()
    components.day = 1
    components.second = -1

    let dateAtEnd = calendar.date(byAdding: components, to: dateAtMidnight)

    print("dateAtMidnight :: \(dateAtMidnight)")
    print("dateAtEnd :: \(dateAtEnd!)")

Answer 5

You are missing NSDayCalendarUnit in

NSDateComponents *components = [cal components:( NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSYearCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit ) fromDate:date];

Answer 6

My Swift extensions for NSDate:

Swift 1.2

extension NSDate {

    func beginningOfDay() -> NSDate {
        var calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
        var components = calendar.components(.CalendarUnitYear | .CalendarUnitMonth | .CalendarUnitDay, fromDate: self)
        return calendar.dateFromComponents(components)!
    }

    func endOfDay() -> NSDate {
        var components = NSDateComponents()
        components.day = 1
        var date = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateByAddingComponents(components, toDate: self.beginningOfDay(), options: .allZeros)!
        date = date.dateByAddingTimeInterval(-1)!
        return date
    }
}

Swift 2.0

extension NSDate {

    func beginningOfDay() -> NSDate {
        let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
        let components = calendar.components([.Year, .Month, .Day], fromDate: self)
        return calendar.dateFromComponents(components)!
    }

    func endOfDay() -> NSDate {
        let components = NSDateComponents()
        components.day = 1
        var date = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateByAddingComponents(components, toDate: self.beginningOfDay(), options: [])!
        date = date.dateByAddingTimeInterval(-1)
        return date
    }
}