How to get start date and end date of the current month (Swift 3)

Question

I'm trying to get the start and end dates of the current month in dd/MM/yyyy format. I tried using extension as answered in this SO Question.But it seems like it's not what I want(the format is different and also it's giving me last month's last date and current month last but one date ). Can some one help me.

Extension Class:

extension Date {
    func startOfMonth() -> Date? {
        let comp: DateComponents = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.year, .month, .hour], from: Calendar.current.startOfDay(for: self))
        return Calendar.current.date(from: comp)!
    }

    func endOfMonth() -> Date? {
        var comp: DateComponents = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.month, .day, .hour], from: Calendar.current.startOfDay(for: self))
        comp.month = 1
        comp.day = -1
        return Calendar.current.date(byAdding: comp, to: self.startOfMonth()!)
    }
}

My Struct:

struct Constants{

    // keys required for making a Login call (POST Method)
    struct LoginKeys {
       .....
    }

    struct RankingKeys {

        static let DateFrom = String(describing: Date().startOfMonth()) //giving me 2016-11-30 16:00:00 +0000 
        static let DateTo  = String(describing: Date().endOfMonth())
//2016-12-30 16:00:00 +0000
    }
}

Expected Result:

DateFrom  = "01/12/2016"
DateTo = "31/12/2016"

Answer 1

You should write this simple code:

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
let date = Date()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd-MM-yyyy"

For start Date:

let comp: DateComponents = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.year, .month], from: date)
let startOfMonth = Calendar.current.date(from: comp)!
print(dateFormatter.string(from: startOfMonth))

For end Date:

var comps2 = DateComponents()
comps2.month = 1
comps2.day = -1
let endOfMonth = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: comps2, to: startOfMonth)
print(dateFormatter.string(from: endOfMonth!))