Get current date in milliseconds

Question

Can any one give me an idea how to get the current date in milliseconds?

Answer 1

Casting the NSTimeInterval directly to a long overflowed for me, so instead I had to cast to a long long.

long long milliseconds = (long long)([[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970] * 1000.0);

The result is a 13 digit timestamp as in Unix.

Answer 2

Use this to get the time in milliseconds (long)(NSTimeInterval)([[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970]).

Answer 3

You can use following methods to get current date in milliseconds.

[[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970];

OR

double CurrentTime = CACurrentMediaTime(); 

Source: iPhone: How to get current milliseconds?

Answer 4

NSTimeInterval milisecondedDate = ([[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970] * 1000);

Answer 5

An extension on date is probably the best way to about it.

extension NSDate {
    func msFromEpoch() -> Double {
        return self.timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000
    }
}

Answer 6

Cconvert NSTimeInterval milisecondedDate value to nsstring and after that convert into int.