I have an object with a birth date. I want to check if the month and day of the birth date are equivalent to the current day and month. I want to replicate what Twitter does for user's birthday, show balloons, but I'm having trouble comparing dates.

I just checked and I couldn't find anything helpful, but thanks for the reconmendation.

I must have nit seen it the first time. I found it.

Hi @Brandon-Rod

Sorry just seen this how if you doing check to see date is in today then Apple have something already (which is good idea to use as if do Manual then you have to make sure all the components match as well). Use Calendar.current.isDateInToday(date) which return a Bool

let date = Date.now

if Calendar.current.isDateInToday(date) {
    print("Today a gift that why it called present")
} else if Calendar.current.isDateInTomorrow(date) {
    print("Tomorrow is another day")
} else if Calendar.current.isDateInYesterday(date) {
    print("You can not change the past")
}

if you want to make it easier to read create a file for this extension

extension Date {
    var isToday: Bool {
        Calendar.current.isDateInToday(self)
    }

    var isTomorrow: Bool {
        Calendar.current.isDateInTomorrow(self)
    }

    var isYesterday: Bool {
        Calendar.current.isDateInYesterday(self)
    }
}

then it look like this

let date = Date.now

if date.isToday {
    print("Today a gift that why it called present")
} else if date.isTomorrow {
    print("Tomorrow is other day")
} else if date.isYesterday {
    print("You can not change the past")
}

@Obelix if you put a link put the title of the article not something else it just confusing. eg

How to check whether one date is similar to another

@roosterboy this made it work better. The other method in the article worked if it was the same day, month, and year, this one works perfectly. Thanks 😄.