How to add minutes to current time in swift

Question

I am new to Swift and am trying a scheduler. I have the start time selected and I need to add 5 minutes (or multiples of it) to the start time and display it in an UILabel?

    @IBAction func timePickerClicked(sender: UIDatePicker) {
    var dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterStyle.ShortStyle
    var dateStr = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(startTime.date)
    let sttime = dateStr
    startTimeDisplay.text = dateStr
    }

   // How to advance time by 5 minutes for each section based on the   start time selected and display time 
   // section 1 = start time + 5
   // section 2 = start time + 10*

Answer 1

Save this little extension:

extension Int {

 var seconds: Int {
    return self
 }

 var minutes: Int {
    return self.seconds * 60
 }

 var hours: Int {
    return self.minutes * 60
 }

 var days: Int {
    return self.hours * 24
 }

 var weeks: Int {
    return self.days * 7
 }

 var months: Int {
    return self.weeks * 4
 }

 var years: Int {
    return self.months * 12
 }
}

Then use it intuitively like:

let threeDaysLater = TimeInterval(3.days)
date.addingTimeInterval(threeDaysLater)

Answer 2

Swift 3:

let minutes: TimeInterval = 1 * 60
let nowPlusOne = Date() + minutes

Answer 3

Swift 4:

// add 5 minutes to date

let date = startDate.addingTimeInterval(TimeInterval(5.0 * 60.0))

// subtract 5 minutes from date

let date = startDate.addingTimeInterval(TimeInterval(-5.0 * 60.0))

Swift 5.1:

// subtract 5 minutes from date
transportationFromDate.addTimeInterval(TimeInterval(-5.0 * 60.0))

Answer 4

You can use Calendar's method

func date(byAdding component: Calendar.Component, value: Int, to date: Date, wrappingComponents: Bool = default) -> Date?

to add any Calendar.Component to any Date. You can create a Date extension to add x minutes to your UIDatePicker's date:

Xcode 8 and Xcode 9 • Swift 3.0 and Swift 4.0

extension Date {
    func adding(minutes: Int) -> Date {
        return Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .minute, value: minutes, to: self)!
    }
}

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Then you can just use the extension method to add minutes to the sender (UIDatePicker):

let section1 = sender.date.adding(minutes: 5)
let section2 = sender.date.adding(minutes: 10)

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Playground testing:

Date().adding(minutes: 10)  //  "Jun 14, 2016, 5:31 PM"

Answer 5

In case you want unix timestamp

        let now : Date = Date()
        let currentCalendar : NSCalendar = Calendar.current as NSCalendar

        let nowPlusAddTime : Date = currentCalendar.date(byAdding: .second, value: accessTime, to: now, options: .matchNextTime)!

        let unixTime = nowPlusAddTime.timeIntervalSince1970

Answer 6

You can do date arithmetic by using NSDateComponents. For example:

import Foundation

let comps = NSDateComponents()

comps.minute = 5

let cal = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()

let r = cal.dateByAddingComponents(comps, toDate: NSDate(), options: nil)

It is what you see when you try it in playground