如果你正在考虑使用这个相对定时(例如游戏或动画)，我宁愿使用CACurrentMediaTime()

double CurrentTime = CACurrentMediaTime();

哪一种是推荐的方式;NSDate从网络的同步时钟中提取，并且在与网络重新同步时偶尔会打嗝。

它返回当前的绝对时间，以秒为单位。

如果你只想要小数部分(通常在同步动画时使用)，

let ct = CACurrentMediaTime().truncatingRemainder(dividingBy: 1)

如果你不想包含Quartz框架，[NSDate timeintervalsincerely eferencedate]是另一个选项。它返回一个double，表示秒数。

这基本上和@TristanLorach发布的答案是一样的，只是为Swift 3重新编码:

   /// Method to get Unix-style time (Java variant), i.e., time since 1970 in milliseconds. This 
   /// copied from here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/24655601/253938 and here:
   /// http://stackoverflow.com/a/7885923/253938
   /// (This should give good performance according to this: 
   ///  http://stackoverflow.com/a/12020300/253938 )
   ///
   /// Note that it is possible that multiple calls to this method and computing the difference may 
   /// occasionally give problematic results, like an apparently negative interval or a major jump 
   /// forward in time. This is because system time occasionally gets updated due to synchronization 
   /// with a time source on the network (maybe "leap second"), or user setting the clock.
   public static func currentTimeMillis() -> Int64 {
      var darwinTime : timeval = timeval(tv_sec: 0, tv_usec: 0)
      gettimeofday(&darwinTime, nil)
      return (Int64(darwinTime.tv_sec) * 1000) + Int64(darwinTime.tv_usec / 1000)
   }

试试这个:

NSDate * timestamp = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:[[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970]];

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"];

NSString *newDateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:timestamp];
timestamp = (NSDate*)newDateString;

在本例中，dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970与格式化程序@"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss结合使用。它将返回带有年、月、日的日期和带有小时、分钟、秒和毫秒的时间。参见示例:"2015-12-02 04:43:15.008"。我使用NSString来确保格式之前已经写过。

let timeInMiliSecDate = Date()
let timeInMiliSec = Int (timeInMiliSecDate.timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000)
print(timeInMiliSec)

It may be useful to know about CodeTimestamps, which provide a wrapper around mach-based timing functions. This gives you nanosecond-resolution timing data - 1000000x more precise than milliseconds. Yes, a million times more precise. (The prefixes are milli, micro, nano, each 1000x more precise than the last.) Even if you don't need CodeTimestamps, check out the code (it's open source) to see how they use mach to get the timing data. This would be useful when you need more precision and want a faster method call than the NSDate approach.

http://eng.pulse.me/line-by-line-speed-analysis-for-ios-apps/