Hello I am very new to swift and I was trying to create an app that counts down to an event on a specific date. I want it to show the number of days hours and seconds left until the specified date but I cannot figure out how to do this.
Please help!
Swift 4
var releaseDate: NSDate?
var countdownTimer = Timer()
func startTimer() {
let releaseDateString = "2018-09-16 08:00:00"
let releaseDateFormatter = DateFormatter()
releaseDateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
releaseDate = releaseDateFormatter.date(from: releaseDateString)! as NSDate
countdownTimer = Timer.scheduledTimer(timeInterval: 1, target: self, selector: #selector(updateTime), userInfo: nil, repeats: true)
}
@objc func updateTime() {
let currentDate = Date()
let calendar = Calendar.current
let diffDateComponents = calendar.dateComponents([.day, .hour, .minute, .second], from: currentDate, to: releaseDate! as Date)
let countdown = "Days \(diffDateComponents.day ?? 0), Hours \(diffDateComponents.hour ?? 0), Minutes \(diffDateComponents.minute ?? 0), Seconds \(diffDateComponents.second ?? 0)"
print(countdown)
}