New Formatters in iOS 8

NewFormatters.playground

import UIKit


var componentsFormatter = NSDateComponentsFormatter()
componentsFormatter.unitsStyle = .Abbreviated

var components = NSDateComponents()
components.hour = 1
components.day = 5
components.year = 1

var formattedComponents = componentsFormatter.stringFromDateComponents(components)

var intervalFormatter = NSDateIntervalFormatter()
intervalFormatter.dateStyle = .NoStyle
intervalFormatter.timeStyle = .ShortStyle

var currentDate = NSDate()
var future = currentDate.dateByAddingTimeInterval(10_000)

var formattedInterval = intervalFormatter.stringFromDate(currentDate, toDate: future)