How to change the current day's hours and minutes in Swift?
If I create a Date() to get the current date and time, I want to create a new date from that but with different hour, minute, and zero seconds, what's the easiest way to do it using Swift? I've been finding so many examples with 'getting' but not 'setting'.
Answer
Be aware that for locales that uses Daylight Saving Times, some hours may not exist on the clock change days or they may occur twice. Both solutions below return a Date? and use force-unwrapping. You should handle possible nil in your app.
Swift 3, 4 and iOS 8 / OS X 10.9 or later
let date = Calendar.current.date(bySettingHour: 9, minute: 30, second: 0, of: Date())!
Swift 2
Use NSDateComponents / DateComponents:
let gregorian = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)!
let now = NSDate()
let components = gregorian.components([.Year, .Month, .Day, .Hour, .Minute, .Second], fromDate: now)
// Change the time to 9:30:00 in your locale
components.hour = 9
components.minute = 30
components.second = 0
let date = gregorian.dateFromComponents(components)!
Note that if you call print(date), the printed time is in UTC. It's the same moment in time, just expressed in a different timezone from yours. Use a NSDateFormatter to convert it to your local time.