Converting second to date in Swift

Question

Hello I am trying to make a count down. I want to convert an integer from second to date and show in a label with this below formats. Lets say that 2.500.000 it prints out to label 29 days 22 hour

29 days 22 hour remained

15 hour 30 minutes remained

15 minutes remained

Check this: [Formatting time string based on number of seconds](https://stackoverflow.com/q/39789194/1187415) or this: [How to display seconds in year, day format in swift](https://stackoverflow.com/q/31818308/1187415). — Martin R, Sep 28 '20 at 17:35

Duncan C · Answer 1 · 2020-09-28T18:07:18.550

It sounds like you want a DateComponentsFormatter . That lets you generate strings that describe amounts of time rather than dates.

You could use the function func string(from ti: TimeInterval) -> String? which takes a time interval and converts it to a string describing an amount of time.

The following code, loosely based on the example code in Apple's documentation on DateComponentsFormatter:

let formatter = DateComponentsFormatter()
formatter.unitsStyle = .full
formatter.includesApproximationPhrase = true
formatter.includesTimeRemainingPhrase = true
formatter.allowedUnits = [.day, .hour, .minute, .second]


print(formatter.string(from: 123456.7) ?? "nil")

Generates the string About 1 day, 10 hours, 17 minutes, 36 seconds remaining (At least with a US English locale.)

Converting second to date in Swift

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