Swift NSDate create var with hour and minute only - swift

Question

I asked a question a moment ago about how to get the hour and minute of the current time and not worry about the year month day, and that question was solved. Im now trying to apply the same logic to creating a custom time (in the hour minute format) but im getting an error
i have
let time1 = NSDateComponents()
time1.hour = 8
time1.minute = 54
let date1: NSDate = calendar.dateFromComponents(time1)!
I tried using the previous answer to make it look like
let date1: NSDate = calendar.components([ .Hour, .Minute ], fromDate: time1())
but i get "ambiguous reference to member 'components'"
from there i remove the : NSDate...then im told to remove the () from the end....and i keep getting errors. Is there an easy fix to this?
Thanks

Answer 1

The quick way, getting the nsdate from your string elements and then convert the nsdate back to a string if you want to :
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm"
let hour = 08
let minutes = 32
let time = formatter.dateFromString("\(hour):\(minutes)")!
let finalTime = formatter.stringFromDate(time)
print(time)
print(finalTime)

Answer 2

I think it's because you're not calling NSCalendar. Since you only want the hour and minutes, you could return a dictionary
func getHourMinutes(fromDate: NSDate) -> [String:Int] {
var timeDic = [String:Int]()
let dC = NSDateComponents()
let cC = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
if let hour = Int(currentCalendar.component(NSCalendarUnit.Hour, fromDate: fromDate)) {
timeDic.append["hour":hour]
}
if let minutes = Int(currentCalendar.component(NSCalendarUnit.Minute, fromDate: fromDate)) {
timeDic.append["minutes":minutes
}
return timeDic
}
Then you can call the keys to set a new NSDate if you wish.

Answer 3

This is the solution my classmate helped me to achieve
....
let date6 = NSDateComponents()
date6.hour = 17
date6.minute = 3
datesArray = [date2, date3, date4, date5, date6]
datesArray.sortInPlace {
NSNumber(integer:($0.minute + ($0.hour * 60))).compare(NSNumber(integer: ($1.minute + ($1.hour * 60)))) == .OrderedAscending
}
....