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Getting Date and Time Swift

I have been looking into retrieving the date and time in Swift and this is the recommended strategy for getting a short, readable Date/Time output:

let currentDate = NSDate()
    let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
    formatter.locale = NSLocale.currentLocale() 
    formatter.dateStyle = .ShortStyle
    formatter.timeStyle = .ShortStyle

    let convertedDate = formatter.dateFromString(currentDate) //ERROR HERE

  print("\n\(convertedDate)")

but this throws an Exception saying that currentDate is not a valid parameter to be passed because it is of type NSDate instead of String

Can you help me understand why this is the case? I have only found similar approaches to this when retrieving Date and Time. Thank you very much, all help is appreciated!

Solution

  • You really want to go from a NSDate to a String, so use stringFromDate:

    let convertedDate = formatter.stringFromDate(currentDate)