Swift - check if a timestamp is yesterday, today, tomorrow, or X days ago
Swift 3/4/5:
Calendar.current.isDateInToday(yourDate)
Calendar.current.isDateInYesterday(yourDate)
Calendar.current.isDateInTomorrow(yourDate)
Additionally:
Calendar.current.isDateInWeekend(yourDate)
Note that for some countries weekend may be different than Saturday-Sunday, it depends on the calendar.
You can also use autoupdatingCurrent
instead of current
calendar, which will track user updates. You use it the same way:
Calendar.autoupdatingCurrent.isDateInToday(yourDate)
Calendar
is a type alias for the NSCalendar
.
Swift 4 update:
let calendar = Calendar.current
let date = Date()
calendar.isDateInYesterday(date)
calendar.isDateInToday(date)
calendar.isDateInTomorrow(date)
Calendar
has methods for all three cases
func isDateInYesterday(_ date: Date) -> Bool
func isDateInToday(_ date: Date) -> Bool
func isDateInTomorrow(_ date: Date) -> Bool
To calculate the days earlier than yesterday use
func dateComponents(_ components: Set<Calendar.Component>,
from start: Date,
to end: Date) -> DateComponents
pass [.day]
to components
and get the day
property from the result.
This is a function which considers also is in
for earlier and later dates by stripping the time part (Swift 3+).
func dayDifference(from interval : TimeInterval) -> String
{
let calendar = Calendar.current
let date = Date(timeIntervalSince1970: interval)
if calendar.isDateInYesterday(date) { return "Yesterday" }
else if calendar.isDateInToday(date) { return "Today" }
else if calendar.isDateInTomorrow(date) { return "Tomorrow" }
else {
let startOfNow = calendar.startOfDay(for: Date())
let startOfTimeStamp = calendar.startOfDay(for: date)
let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: startOfNow, to: startOfTimeStamp)
let day = components.day!
if day < 1 { return "\(-day) days ago" }
else { return "In \(day) days" }
}
}
Alternatively you could use DateFormatter
for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow to get localized strings for free
func dayDifference(from interval : TimeInterval) -> String
{
let calendar = Calendar.current
let date = Date(timeIntervalSince1970: interval)
let startOfNow = calendar.startOfDay(for: Date())
let startOfTimeStamp = calendar.startOfDay(for: date)
let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day], from: startOfNow, to: startOfTimeStamp)
let day = components.day!
if abs(day) < 2 {
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateStyle = .short
formatter.timeStyle = .none
formatter.doesRelativeDateFormatting = true
return formatter.string(from: date)
} else if day > 1 {
return "In \(day) days"
} else {
return "\(-day) days ago"
}
}
Update:
In macOS 10.15 / iOS 13 RelativeDateTimeFormatter
was introduced to return (localized) strings relative to a specific date.
NSCalender has new methods that you can use directly.
NSCalendar.currentCalendar().isDateInTomorrow(NSDate())//Replace NSDate() with your date
NSCalendar.currentCalendar().isDateInYesterday()
NSCalendar.currentCalendar().isDateInTomorrow()
Hope this helps