How to compare dates
Swift version: 5.0
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 > soonLEARN SWIFTUI FOR FREE I wrote a massive, free SwiftUI tutorial collection, and also have a growing list of free SwiftUI tutorials on YouTube – get started today!
Available from iOS 8.0
Similar solutions…
- How to use ISO-8601 dates with JSONDecoder and Codable
- How to compare two tuples for equality
- How to format dates with an ordinal suffix using NumberFormatter's ordinalStyle
- How to compare two CGRects with equalTo()
- How to create a date picker and read values from it
About the Swift Knowledge Base
This is part of the Swift Knowledge Base, a free, searchable collection of solutions for common iOS questions.
