Swift Date Extension

About

I wrote this little project a while ago, right after Apple announced Swift on WWDC'14. It was my first try of extensions in Swift. I decided to publish and add more goodies to it as time went by. This is an extension to the Date class. It includes some convenience methods that make it easier to manipulate and calculate time units to Date without having to use DateComponents directly.

Here are a few examples of the things you can do:

//-- Adding time units:

let date1 = Date().plus(months: 2).minus(days: 5).plus(seconds: 5)
let date2 = Date().plus(years: 1).minus(months: 6)

//-- Calculating difference between dates:

let weeksBetween = Date.monthsBetween(date1: someDate, date2: someOtherDate)
let monthsBetween = Date.weeksBetween(date1: someDate, date2: someOtherDate)

//-- Direct access to calendar units:

let year = Date().year
let month = Date().month
let seconds = Date().seconds

//-- Comparing two dates:

let now = Date()
let then = now.minus(days: 1)

let comparison1: Bool = now.isGreaterThan(then) //-- true
let comparison2: Bool = now.isLessThan(then) //-- false

I'm trying to keep this up to date. Right now, it's fully compliant to Swift 3.0. Feel free to use this sample however you see fit. I hope you find this helpful when venturing through Swift.

How to use

You can simply include the DateExtension.swift file to your project. To make your life easier, you can also use CocoaPods. Simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'SwiftDateExtension'

License

This component is available under MIT license.