How to compare dates

Paul Hudson    February 12th 2018    @twostraws

Swift’s Date struct conforms to both Equatable and Comparable, which means you check two dates for equality and compare them to see which is earlier.

In practice, this means you can use <, >, and == to compare them just like you would do with strings and integers. Try this in a playground:

let now = Date()
let soon = Date().addingTimeInterval(5000)

now == soon
now != soon
now < soon
now > soon

Available from iOS 8.0

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