Swift: What day is today?

Swift: What Day Is Today?

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Swift's Date and DateFormatter classes to find out the current day of the week. This is a practical example for beginners to understand how to work with dates and format them into readable strings.

Code

import Foundation

// Get the current date and time
let today = Date()

// Create a DateFormatter to format the date into a day name
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "EEEE"  // "EEEE" gives the full name of the day (e.g., Monday)

// Convert the current date into the day of the week string
let dayOfWeek = formatter.string(from: today)

// Print the result
print("Today is \(dayOfWeek).")

Key Points

• Use the Date() class to get the current date and time in Swift.
• DateFormatter allows you to format dates into readable strings using format patterns.
• The format string "EEEE" returns the full name of the day of the week.
• Combining Date and DateFormatter makes it easy to display human-friendly date information.