How to change the current day's hours and minutes in Swift? - swift

Question

If I create a Date() to get the current date and time, I want to create a new date from that but with different hour, minute, and zero seconds, what's the easiest way to do it using Swift? I've been finding so many examples with 'getting' but not 'setting'.

Answer 1

Be aware that for locales that uses Daylight Saving Times, on clock change days, some hours may not exist or they may occur twice. Both solutions below return a Date? and use force-unwrapping. You should handle possible nil in your app.
Swift 3+ and iOS 8 / OS X 10.9 or later
let date = Calendar.current.date(bySettingHour: 9, minute: 30, second: 0, of: Date())!
Swift 2
Use NSDateComponents / DateComponents:
let gregorian = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)!
let now = NSDate()
let components = gregorian.components([.Year, .Month, .Day, .Hour, .Minute, .Second], fromDate: now)
// Change the time to 9:30:00 in your locale
components.hour = 9
components.minute = 30
components.second = 0
let date = gregorian.dateFromComponents(components)!
Note that if you call print(date), the printed time is in UTC. It's the same moment in time, just expressed in a different timezone from yours. Use a NSDateFormatter to convert it to your local time.

Answer 2

swift 3 date extension with timezone
extension Date {
public func setTime(hour: Int, min: Int, sec: Int, timeZoneAbbrev: String = "UTC") -> Date? {
let x: Set<Calendar.Component> = [.year, .month, .day, .hour, .minute, .second]
let cal = Calendar.current
var components = cal.dateComponents(x, from: self)
components.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: timeZoneAbbrev)
components.hour = hour
components.minute = min
components.second = sec
return cal.date(from: components)
}
}

Answer 3

//Increase the day & hours in Swift
let dateformat = DateFormatter()
let timeformat = DateFormatter()
dateformat.dateStyle = .medium
timeformat.timeStyle = .medium
//Increase Day
let currentdate = Date()
let currentdateshow = dateformat.string(from: currentdate)
textfield2.text = currentdateshow
let myCurrentdate = dateformat.date(from: dateTimeString)!
let tomorrow = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .day, value: 1, to: myCurrentdate) // Increase 1 Day
let tomorrowday = dateformat.string(from: tomorrow!)
text3.text = tomorrowday
text3.isEnabled = false
//increase Time
let time = Date()
let currenttime = timeformat.string(from: time)
text4.text = currenttime
let mycurrenttime = timeformat.date(from: currenttime)!
let increasetime = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .hour, value: 2, to: mycurrenttime) //increase 2 hrs.
let increasemytime = timeformat.string(from: increasetime!)
text5.text = increasemytime