Create own NSDate

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I would like to create an NSDate. It should be the year 1, the month 1, the day 1, the minute 0, the seccond 0 and the nanoseccond 0. I don not know how I can create this day myself. So do you guys know how to do this in Swift? Thanks a lot for your help!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '15 at 16:44

That can be done by using NSDateComponents

var dateComponents = NSDateComponents()
dateComponents.second  = 0
dateComponents.minute = 0
dateComponents.hour = 0
dateComponents.day = 1
dateComponents.month = 1
dateComponents.year = 1
dateComponents.nanosecond = 0
let date = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateFromComponents(dateComponents)

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '15 at 16:48

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Use the NSCalendar method designed for this exact purpose:

let myDate = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateWithEra(1, year: 1, month: 1, day: 1, hour: 1, minute: 1, second: 1, nanosecond: 0)

answered May 20 '15 at 16:48

Tom Harrington

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I assumed that Patrick was smart enough to look at the arguments and fill in the desired values, instead of blindly copying and pasting code from StackOverflow without even reading it. – Tom Harrington May 20 '15 at 16:55

Create own NSDate

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