Get difference between two dates?

Question

I have two dates in 24 hours formate like (dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm). I want to get a difference between these two dates.

My Code : This is getting only dates, I want a number of days and remaining time in hours also. (like 6days 5 hours)

    NSTimeInterval secondsBetween = [date2 timeIntervalSinceDate:date1];
    int numberOfDays = secondsBetween / 86400;
    NSLog(@"There are %d days in between the two dates.", numberOfDays);

Does this answer your question? [Number of days between two NSDates](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4739483/number-of-days-between-two-nsdates) — Larme, Nov 27 '19 at 11:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '19 at 11:43

NSDateComponentsFormatter can do that

NSTimeInterval secondsBetween = [date2 timeIntervalSinceDate:date1];
NSDateComponentsFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateComponentsFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.allowedUnits = NSCalendarUnitDay | NSCalendarUnitHour | NSCalendarUnitMinute;
formatter.unitsStyle = NSDateComponentsFormatterUnitsStyleFull;
NSLog(@"%@", [formatter stringFromTimeInterval:secondsBetween]);

See NSDateComponentsFormatterUnitsStyle for other styles.

holex · Answer 2 · 2019-11-28T21:27:27.117

1

Swift 3+

you can use date-components, like:

let date1 = Date()
let date2 = Date(timeIntervalSinceNow: 12345678)

let dateComponets = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day, .hour], from: date1, to: date2)

then you can see the difference in days:

debugPrint(dateComponets.day, dateComponets.hour) // 142 (days), 22 (hours)

ObjC

same approach, but different syntax:

NSDate * date1 = [NSDate new];
NSDate * date2 = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:12345678];

NSDateComponents * dateComponents = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSCalendarUnitDay | NSCalendarUnitHour fromDate:date1 toDate:date2 options:0];

then the difference in days:

NSLog(@"%d, %d", dateComponents.day, dateComponents.hour); // 142 (days), 22 (hours)

edited Nov 28 '19 at 21:27

answered Nov 27 '19 at 11:35

holex

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How to pass my end date, here date1 is current date what about my date – Naresh Nov 27 '19 at 11:47
`date1` and `date2` are your dates, I guess, just need to replace them, with the desired ones. – holex Nov 27 '19 at 11:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 28 '19 at 10:04

struct EventDate {
var monthYear: [String]?
var monthNumber: [String]?
var year: [String]?
var month: [String]?
init(monthYear: [String]?,monthNumber:[String]?,year:[String]?,month:[String]?) {
    self.monthYear = monthYear
    self.monthNumber = monthNumber
    self.year = year
    self.month = month
}

}

func getMonthAndYearBetween(from start: String, to end: String) -> EventDate {

    var monthYear: [String] = []
    var monthNumber: [String] = []
    var years: [String] = []
    var months: [String] = []

    let format = DateFormatter()
    format.dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy"

    guard let startDate = format.date(from: start),
        let endDate = format.date(from: end) else {
            return EventDate(monthYear: [], monthNumber: [], year: [], month: [])
    }

    let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
    let components = calendar.dateComponents(Set([.month]), from: startDate, to: endDate)

    var allDates: [String] = []
    let dateRangeFormatter = DateFormatter()
    dateRangeFormatter.dateFormat = "MMM yyyy"

    for i in 0 ... (components.month! + 1) {
        guard let date = calendar.date(byAdding: .month, value: i, to: startDate) else {
            continue
        }

        let formattedDate = dateRangeFormatter.string(from: date)
        allDates += [formattedDate]

        let df = DateFormatter()
        df.dateFormat = "MMM yyyy"
        let monyr = df.string(from: date)
        monthYear.append(monyr)
        df.dateFormat = "MM"
        let monNO = df.string(from: date)
        monthNumber.append(monNO)
        df.dateFormat = "yyyy"
        let yr = df.string(from: date)
        years.append(yr)
        df.dateFormat = "MMM"
        let mon = df.string(from: date)
        months.append(mon)

    }
    return EventDate(monthYear: monthYear, monthNumber: monthNumber, year: years, month: months)
}

you can get like this

let eventDate = Date().getMonthAndYearBetween(from: startDate, to: endDate)

Get difference between two dates?

3 Answers3

Swift 3+

ObjC