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Reputation: 927

Swift - Getting Date from Month, Day, Year Components

How do you convert a DateComponents to a Date Object. Currently, I have following code

Calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2018, month: 1, day: 15))

but I'm getting an error stating "No 'date' candidates produce the expected contextual result type 'Date'

Sorry for the basic question, but I'm still struggling with how to work with dates in Swift

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6501

Answers (2)

subCipher
subCipher

Reputation: 81

//create an instance of DateComponents to keep your code flexible
var dateComponents = DateComponents()

//create the date components
dateComponents.year = 2018
dateComponents.month = 1
dateComponents.day = 15
//dateComponents.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "EST")
dateComponents.hour = 4
dateComponents.minute = 12

//make something useful out of it
func makeACalendarObject(){

//create an instance of a Calendar for point of reference ex: myCalendar, and use the dateComponents as the parameter
let targetCalendar = Calendar.current
let newCalendarObject = targetCalendar.date(from: dateComponents)


guard let newCalObject = newCalendarObject else {
    return
}
print(newCalObject)
}
//call the object
makeACalendarObject()

Upvotes: 0

vadian
vadian

Reputation: 285072

You cannot call date(from on the type. You have to use an instance of the calendar, either the current calendar

Calendar.current.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2018, month: 1, day: 15))

or a fixed one

let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2018, month: 1, day: 15))

Upvotes: 15

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