Me pregunto si hay alguna posibilidad nueva e increíble de obtener la cantidad de días entre dos NSDates en Swift / el "nuevo" Cocoa.

Por ejemplo, como en Ruby, haría:

(end_date - start_date).to_i

También debes considerar la diferencia horaria. Por ejemplo, si compara las fechas 2015-01-01 10:00y 2015-01-02 09:00, los días entre esas fechas volverán como 0 (cero) ya que la diferencia entre esas fechas es menos de 24 horas (son 23 horas).

Si su propósito es obtener el número de día exacto entre dos fechas, puede solucionar este problema de la siguiente manera:

// Assuming that firstDate and secondDate are defined
// ...

let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()

// Replace the hour (time) of both dates with 00:00
let date1 = calendar.startOfDayForDate(firstDate)
let date2 = calendar.startOfDayForDate(secondDate)

let flags = NSCalendarUnit.Day
let components = calendar.components(flags, fromDate: date1, toDate: date2, options: [])

components.day  // This will return the number of day(s) between dates

Versión Swift 3 y Swift 4

let calendar = Calendar.current

// Replace the hour (time) of both dates with 00:00
let date1 = calendar.startOfDay(for: firstDate)
let date2 = calendar.startOfDay(for: secondDate)

let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: date1, to: date2)

Aquí está mi respuesta para Swift 2:

func daysBetweenDates(startDate: NSDate, endDate: NSDate) -> Int
{
    let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()

    let components = calendar.components([.Day], fromDate: startDate, toDate: endDate, options: [])

    return components.day
}

Veo un par de respuestas de Swift3, así que agregaré las mías:

public static func daysBetween(start: Date, end: Date) -> Int {
   Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day], from: start, to: end).day!
}

El nombre se siente más rápido, es una línea y usa el dateComponents()método más reciente .

Traduje mi respuesta de Objective-C

let start = "2010-09-01"
let end = "2010-09-05"

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"

let startDate:NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(start)
let endDate:NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(end)

let cal = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()


let unit:NSCalendarUnit = .Day

let components = cal.components(unit, fromDate: startDate, toDate: endDate, options: nil)


println(components)

resultado

<NSDateComponents: 0x10280a8a0>
     Day: 4

La parte más difícil fue que el autocompletado insiste en que fromDate y toDate serían NSDate?, pero de hecho deben ser NSDate!como se muestra en la referencia.

No veo cómo se vería una buena solución con un operador, ya que desea especificar la unidad de manera diferente en cada caso. Puede devolver el intervalo de tiempo, pero no ganará mucho.

Aquí es muy agradable, Dateextensión para obtener la diferencia entre fechas en años, meses, días, horas, minutos, segundos.

extension Date {

    func years(sinceDate: Date) -> Int? {
        return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.year], from: sinceDate, to: self).year
    }

    func months(sinceDate: Date) -> Int? {
        return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.month], from: sinceDate, to: self).month
    }

    func days(sinceDate: Date) -> Int? {
        return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day], from: sinceDate, to: self).day
    }

    func hours(sinceDate: Date) -> Int? {
        return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.hour], from: sinceDate, to: self).hour
    }

    func minutes(sinceDate: Date) -> Int? {
        return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.minute], from: sinceDate, to: self).minute
    }

    func seconds(sinceDate: Date) -> Int? {
        return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.second], from: sinceDate, to: self).second
    }

}

Actualización para Swift 3 iOS 10 Beta 4

func daysBetweenDates(startDate: Date, endDate: Date) -> Int {
    let calendar = Calendar.current
    let components = calendar.dateComponents([Calendar.Component.day], from: startDate, to: endDate)
    return components.day!
}

Aquí está la respuesta para Swift 3 (probado para IOS 10 Beta)

func daysBetweenDates(startDate: Date, endDate: Date) -> Int
{
    let calendar = Calendar.current
    let components = calendar.components([.day], from: startDate, to: endDate, options: [])
    return components.day!
}

Entonces puedes llamarlo así

let pickedDate: Date = sender.date
let NumOfDays: Int = daysBetweenDates(startDate: pickedDate, endDate: Date())
    print("Num of Days: \(NumOfDays)")

Swift 3. Gracias a Emin Buğra Saral arriba por la startOfDaysugerencia.

extension Date {

    func daysBetween(date: Date) -> Int {
        return Date.daysBetween(start: self, end: date)
    }

    static func daysBetween(start: Date, end: Date) -> Int {
        let calendar = Calendar.current

        // Replace the hour (time) of both dates with 00:00
        let date1 = calendar.startOfDay(for: start)
        let date2 = calendar.startOfDay(for: end)

        let a = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: date1, to: date2)
        return a.value(for: .day)!
    }
}

Uso:

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
let start = dateFormatter.date(from: "2017-01-01")!
let end = dateFormatter.date(from: "2018-01-01")!

let diff = Date.daysBetween(start: start, end: end) // 365

Las cosas integradas en Swift siguen siendo muy básicas. Como deberían ser en esta etapa inicial. Pero puede agregar sus propias cosas con el riesgo de sobrecargar operadores y funciones de dominio global. Sin embargo, serán locales para su módulo.

let now = NSDate()
let seventies = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: 0)

// Standard solution still works
let days = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().components(.CalendarUnitDay, 
           fromDate: seventies, toDate: now, options: nil).day

// Flashy swift... maybe...
func -(lhs:NSDate, rhs:NSDate) -> DateRange {
    return DateRange(startDate: rhs, endDate: lhs)
}

class DateRange {
    let startDate:NSDate
    let endDate:NSDate
    var calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
    var days: Int {
        return calendar.components(.CalendarUnitDay, 
               fromDate: startDate, toDate: endDate, options: nil).day
    }
    var months: Int {
        return calendar.components(.CalendarUnitMonth, 
               fromDate: startDate, toDate: endDate, options: nil).month
    }
    init(startDate:NSDate, endDate:NSDate) {
        self.startDate = startDate
        self.endDate = endDate
    }
}

// Now you can do this...
(now - seventies).months
(now - seventies).days

Aquí está mi respuesta para Swift 3:

func daysBetweenDates(startDate: NSDate, endDate: NSDate, inTimeZone timeZone: TimeZone? = nil) -> Int {
    var calendar = Calendar.current
    if let timeZone = timeZone {
        calendar.timeZone = timeZone
    }
    let dateComponents = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: startDate.startOfDay, to: endDate.startOfDay)
    return dateComponents.day!
}

Apenas hay una biblioteca estándar específica de Swift todavía; sólo los tipos de colección, de cadena y de números básicos lean.

Es perfectamente posible definir tales abreviaturas usando extensiones, pero en lo que respecta a las API listas para usar, no hay Cocoa "nuevo"; Swift simplemente se asigna directamente a las mismas API detalladas de Cocoa que ya existen.

Voy a agregar mi versión a pesar de que este hilo tiene un año. Mi código se ve así:

    var name = txtName.stringValue // Get the users name

    // Get the date components from the window controls
    var dateComponents = NSDateComponents()
    dateComponents.day = txtDOBDay.integerValue
    dateComponents.month = txtDOBMonth.integerValue
    dateComponents.year = txtDOBYear.integerValue

    // Make a Gregorian calendar
    let calendar = NSCalendar(identifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)

    // Get the two dates we need
    var birthdate = calendar?.dateFromComponents(dateComponents)
    let currentDate = NSDate()

    var durationDateComponents = calendar?.components(NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitDay, fromDate: birthdate!, toDate: currentDate, options: nil)

    let numberOfDaysAlive = durationDateComponents?.day

    println("\(numberOfDaysAlive!)")

    txtGreeting.stringValue = "Hello \(name), You have been alive for \(numberOfDaysAlive!) days."

Espero que esto ayude a alguien.

Salud,

El método de Erin actualizado a Swift 3, muestra los días a partir de hoy (sin tener en cuenta la hora del día)

func daysBetweenDates( endDate: Date) -> Int 
    let calendar: Calendar = Calendar.current 
    let date1 = calendar.startOfDay(for: Date()) 
    let date2 = calendar.startOfDay(for: secondDate) 
    return calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: date1, to: date2).day! 
}

Esto devuelve una diferencia absoluta en días entre algunos Datey hoy:

extension Date {
  func daysFromToday() -> Int {
    return abs(Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day], from: self, to: Date()).day!)
  }
}

y luego úsalo:

if someDate.daysFromToday() >= 7 {
  // at least a week from today
}

Puedes usar la siguiente extensión:

public extension Date {
    func daysTo(_ date: Date) -> Int? {
        let calendar = Calendar.current

        // Replace the hour (time) of both dates with 00:00
        let date1 = calendar.startOfDay(for: self)
        let date2 = calendar.startOfDay(for: date)

        let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: date1, to: date2)
        return components.day  // This will return the number of day(s) between dates
    }
}

Entonces, puedes llamarlo así:

startDate.daysTo(endDate)

Swift 3.2

extension DateComponentsFormatter {
    func difference(from fromDate: Date, to toDate: Date) -> String? {
        self.allowedUnits = [.year,.month,.weekOfMonth,.day]
        self.maximumUnitCount = 1
        self.unitsStyle = .full
        return self.string(from: fromDate, to: toDate)
    }
}

Toda respuesta es buena. Pero para las localizaciones necesitamos calcular un número de días decimales entre dos fechas. para que podamos proporcionar el formato decimal sostenible.

// This method returns the fractional number of days between to dates
func getFractionalDaysBetweenDates(date1: Date, date2: Date) -> Double {

    let components = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day, .hour], from: date1, to: date2)

    var decimalDays = Double(components.day!)
    decimalDays += Double(components.hour!) / 24.0

    return decimalDays
}

extension Date {
    func daysFromToday() -> Int {
        return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day], from: self, to: Date()).day!
    }
}

Entonces úsalo como

    func dayCount(dateString: String) -> String{
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMM dd,yyyy hh:mm a"
        let fetchedDate = dateFormatter.date(from: dateString)


        let day = fetchedDate?.daysFromToday()
        if day! > -1{
            return "\(day!) days passed."
        }else{
        return "\(day! * -1) days left."
        }
    }

Swift 3: días desde hoy hasta la fecha

func daysUntilDate(endDateComponents: DateComponents) -> Int
    {
        let cal = Calendar.current
        var components = cal.dateComponents([.era, .year, .month, .day], from: NSDate() as Date)
        let today = cal.date(from: components)
        let otherDate = cal.date(from: endDateComponents)

        components = cal.dateComponents([Calendar.Component.day], from: (today! as Date), to: otherDate!)
        return components.day!
    }

Llamar a una función como esta

// Days from today until date
   var examnDate = DateComponents()
   examnDate.year = 2016
   examnDate.month = 12
   examnDate.day = 15
   let daysCount = daysUntilDate(endDateComponents: examnDate)

La opción más fácil sería crear una extensión en la fecha.

public extension Date {

        public var currentCalendar: Calendar {
            return Calendar.autoupdatingCurrent
        }

        public func daysBetween(_ date: Date) -> Int {
            let components = currentCalendar.dateComponents([.day], from: self, to: date)
            return components.day!
        }
    }

  func completeOffset(from date:Date) -> String? {

    let formatter = DateComponentsFormatter()
    formatter.unitsStyle = .brief

    return  formatter.string(from: Calendar.current.dateComponents([.year,.month,.day,.hour,.minute,.second], from: date, to: self))




}

si necesita año, mes, días y horas como cadena, use esto

var tomorrow = Calendar.current.date (byAdding: .day, value: 1, to: Date ())!

deje dc = tomorrow.completeOffset (desde: Fecha ())

Un buen trazador de líneas práctico:

extension Date {
  var daysFromNow: Int {
    return Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day], from: Date(), to: self).day!
  }
}

Rápido 4

 func getDateHeader(indexPath: Int) -> String {
    let formatter2 = DateFormatter()
    formatter2.dateFormat = "MM-dd-yyyy"
    var dateDeadline : Date?

    dateDeadline = formatter2.date(from: arrCompletedDate[indexPath] as! String)

    let currentTime = dateDeadline?.unixTimestamp
    let calendar = NSCalendar.current

    let date = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: Double(currentTime!))
    if calendar.isDateInYesterday(date as Date) { return "Yesterday" }
    else if calendar.isDateInToday(date as Date) { return "Today" }
    else if calendar.isDateInTomorrow(date as Date) { return "Tomorrow" }
    else {
        let startOfNow = calendar.startOfDay(for: NSDate() as Date)
        let startOfTimeStamp = calendar.startOfDay(for: date as Date)
        let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: startOfNow, to: startOfTimeStamp)
        let day = components.day!
        if day < 1 { return "\(abs(day)) days ago" }
        else { return "In \(day) days" }
    }
}

Esta es una versión actualizada de la respuesta de Emin para Swift 5 que incorpora la sugerencia de usar el mediodía en lugar de la medianoche como la hora definitiva para comparar días. También maneja la falla potencial de varias funciones de fecha al devolver un opcional.

    ///
    /// This is an approximation; it does not account for time differences. It will set the time to 1200 (noon) and provide the absolute number
    /// of days between now and the given date. If the result is negative, it should be read as "days ago" instead of "days from today."
    /// Returns nil if something goes wrong initializing or adjusting dates.
    ///

    func daysFromToday() -> Int?
    {
        let calendar = NSCalendar.current

        // Replace the hour (time) of both dates with noon. (Noon is less likely to be affected by DST changes, timezones, etc. than midnight.)
        guard let date1 = calendar.date(bySettingHour: 12, minute: 00, second: 00, of: calendar.startOfDay(for: Date())),
              let date2 = calendar.date(bySettingHour: 12, minute: 00, second: 00, of: calendar.startOfDay(for: self)) else
        {
            return nil
        }

        return calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: date1, to: date2).day
    }

Solución rápida 5.2.4:

import UIKit

let calendar = Calendar.current

let start = "2010-09-01"
let end = "2010-09-05"

let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"

let firstDate = dateFormatter.date(from: start)!
let secondDate = dateFormatter.date(from: end)!

// Replace the hour (time) of both dates with 00:00
let date1 = calendar.startOfDay(for: firstDate)
let date2 = calendar.startOfDay(for: secondDate)

let components = calendar.dateComponents([Calendar.Component.day], from: date1, to: date2)

components.day  // This will return the number of day(s) between dates

Versión 2017, copiar y pegar

func simpleIndex(ofDate: Date) -> Int {
    
    // index here just means today 0, yesterday -1, tomorrow 1 etc.
    
    let c = Calendar.current
    let todayRightNow = Date()
    
    let d = c.date(bySetting: .hour, value: 13, of: ofDate)
    let t = c.date(bySetting: .hour, value: 13, of: todayRightNow)
    
    if d == nil || today == nil {
    
        print("weird problem simpleIndex#ofDate")
        return 0
    }
    
    let r = c.dateComponents([.day], from: today!, to: d!)
    // yesterday is negative one, tomorrow is one
    
    if let o = r.value(for: .day) {
        
        return o
    }
    else {
    
        print("another weird problem simpleIndex#ofDate")
        return 0
    }
}

let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar();
let component1 = calendar.component(.Day, fromDate: fromDate)
let component2 = calendar.component(.Day, fromDate: toDate)
let difference  = component1 - component2