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Take a certain amount of days off the current date and print with certain date format

How would I take a certain amount of days (take away one day) off the current date and print with certain date format to the console.

I'm currently using:

print((Calendar.current as NSCalendar).date(byAdding: .day, value: -1, to: Date(), options: [])!)

Which prints the date and time as:

yyyy-MM-dd HH:MM:SS +0000

But I want it to print like:

dd-MM-yyyy

Is this at all possible?

Solution

  • swift 3.0 version

    let yesterday = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .day, value: -1, to: Date())
let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd-MM-yyyy"
if let yesterday = yesterday {
    print(dateFormatter.string(from: yesterday))
}else{
    print("Date incorrectly manipulated")
}