How to add hours to an NSDate?

Objective CIphone Sdk-3.0Nsdate

Objective C Problem Overview


I have a date converted to double value and saved in database. Now, I want to compare if currentDate > myDataBaseDate + 8 hours i.e., I want to get 8 hours added to myDataBaseDate. I'm converting date into double values. So how do I get 8 hours later time from my database saved date. How do I compare

if (currentDateTime > DateFromdatabaseValue + DateByAdding8HoursInDataBase)

Objective C Solutions


Solution 1 - Objective C

I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, but you can create an NSDate object by adding time in seconds on to another NSDate using:

- (id)dateByAddingTimeInterval:(NSTimeInterval)seconds

// eg. to add 8 hours to current time:

NSDate *mydate = [NSDate date];
NSTimeInterval secondsInEightHours = 8 * 60 * 60;
NSDate *dateEightHoursAhead = [mydate dateByAddingTimeInterval:secondsInEightHours];

Solution 2 - Objective C

Since iOS 8 there is the more convenient dateByAddingUnit:

//add 8 hours
let calendar = NSCalendar.autoupdatingCurrentCalendar()
newDate = calendar.dateByAddingUnit(.CalendarUnitHour, value: 8, toDate: originalDate, options: nil)

Solution 3 - Objective C

You can simply use:

NSDate *incrementedDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeInterval:numberOfSeconds sinceDate:[NSDate date]];

Solution 4 - Objective C

You can simply add 8 * 3600 to your database value (assuming that your converted double value represents seconds).

Solution 5 - Objective C

NSDate *startdate = datePicker.date;

    NSTimeInterval secondsInOneHours = 1 * 60 * 60;

    NSDate *dateOneHoursAhead = [startdate dateByAddingTimeInterval:secondsInOneHours];

    [dateformate setDateFormat:@"d-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss"];

    strDate = [dateformate stringFromDate:dateOneHoursAhead];

Solution 6 - Objective C

Swift 3.X Simple usage

let calendar = NSCalendar.autoupdatingCurrent
let newDate = calendar.date(byAdding: .hour, value: 8, to: Date())

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