Date and Time! (Swift in Xcode) Video Lecture - Swift in Xcode The Complete

hey everybody today I'm going to show
you how to use date and time using Swift
with Xcode so let's go ahead and get
started all right so let's open up Xcode
and create a new Xcode project this will
be a single View application click Next
in our product name I am just going to
call nine time click Next and create and
now let's make this a bit bigger let's
head over to our main dot storyboard and
inside of our main dot storyboard we
need to head over to the label and we're
just going to click and drag that label
onto our scene now we're going to
stretch this label out so it fits all
the sides like so then make it a bit
bigger as well thicker so we can make
the text itself a bit bigger then we
take this label we go right down here
and we're going to add some constraints
real quick and to say add missing
constraints now down now up here in your
attributes inspector we need to go over
to the alignment click alignment we're
going to Center the alignment I'm just
going to change the text you don't need
to do this this can be whatever text you
want I'm going to have Helvetica anyway
and this is going to be a thin and I
don't want it to be thin italic I want
it to be thin and now let's make this a
bit bigger just go to the size 30 ish
and click done now let's head right up
here to the top right hand corner and
you see these two little circles and
this is our assistant editor and now we
need to right-click and drag from this
label over to our viewcontroller.swift
file and inside of here we need to go
connection outlet and this will just be
we're just going to name our label
pretty much so we're going to call this
label label and then we also need to set
the text for this so we need to say
label dot text will be equal to and this
will actually be equal to our NS date
formatter
dot localized string from dates so it's
going to grab a string from your date
that's on your phone already so we have
the date and I just want to type in NS
date open parenthesis closed parenthesis
and this is grabbing the date from your
specific time zone and then now we have
our NS date formatter style so if we
type this in real quick we could say NS
date formatter formatter style and click
the period right after the NS date
formatter style and you get a bunch of
formats so along with these formats you
have the full style and it actually
gives you what it's going to look like
down
here so this is going to display your
date that is in your time zone so we can
have the full style which gives you this
big long line I'm just going to go with
the medium style right now click enter
and then we can go down here to our time
style and we'll also need to type in NS
date formatter style dot and this will
be our medium style or long style or
just our short style I think I'm going
to go with the short style on this one
and as you can see it's just saying 3:30
p.m. click ok and let's build and run
and now that that's build and run you
can see if June 15 2015 8 45 a.m. now
let's just say you want the time just to
show so let's go back to our view
controller dot Swift and inside of here
you can see our date style and we want
to just go up here to our NS date
formatter style medium style and erase
the medium style and we're going to type
in no style and now if we were to build
and run this we should we'll just have
our time showing and there you have it
we have 846 p.m. now you can also do
this with just the date so you need to
go up here to your NS date formatter
style we're going to type in no style
and let's say we want this one to be a
full style so let's build and run this
and there you have it Monday June 15
2015 and now let's head back over to our
code where we have the NS date formatter
style and we'll actually just change
this back to no style again and then now
we need to head back over to our time
style and we're going to change our time
style to full style and this will allow
us to actually see the seconds so if we
were to build and run this right now you
will see that the seconds actually do
not grow you will see that it's just
standing still because this is only
being called when the view loads so this
is the time at which the view loads so
if you want to see an accurate time
let's head back over to our view
controller dot Swift and in here we're
going to add an NS timer dot scheduled
timer with time interval and be sure
you're selecting with the second one
that has the target and the selector tap
that all in our timer will be calling a
certain function at point every point
one seconds our target our target will
be the self meaning that it's going to
affect our view controller itself our
selector will be just capital SEL ctor
open parentheses open quotation mark
close quotation mark close parentheses
our user info we do not require any user
info and it repeats we're going to set
this evil cool to true now let's go down
here and we're going to create a
function and this will be our update
time function so update time open
parentheses close parentheses open curly
braket close curly bracket and inside of
this we just need to click and drag this
label dot txt function into here our
label dot X statement into our update
time and now any time this is called we
are going to call this update time but
first actually we need to head back over
to our selector here and we just want to
put in this part right here that says
update time without the parentheses so
now it's going to call this specific
function every 0.1 seconds so now let's
build and run this and as you can see it
is keeping the time perfectly and you
will always be accurate thank you all so
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