Assign [NSDate date] to NSString in Swift

Question

In Objective-C, we can easily set the current date to an NSString, for example string = [NSDate date]; .

Can someone help me how to assign the same in Swift? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

First of all, your expression ...

In Objective-C, we could easily set the current date to an NSString, for example string = [NSDate date];

This is complete trash.

In Objective-C, you need to use NSDateFormatter to output an NSString from an NSDate .

You would do something like this ...

 NSDate *date = [NSDate date]; NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; df.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle NSString *string = [df stringFromDate:date]; 

Now, in Swift, it is not surprising that this is EXACTLY the same.

 let date = NSDate() let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter() dateFormatter.dateStyle = .MediumStyle let string = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date) 

Answer 2

maybe you want this:

 let string = NSDate().description