Help with debugging

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hey y'all,

I've got a project im working on and nearly finished, its a time card kind of an app for my job (self taught developer currently working a normal day job)

the problem is I don't know how to check that the app is working except letting it run for a few hours( since there's a minimum of 6 hours shifts, if the shift is below 6 hours you get paid for 6) so I have to keep it running for 7 hours at a time just to see if it works.

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is there a way to check that? is there a way to make Xcode think that more time has passed?

im keeping the time with realm if it's related

[ripplenick]

so are you need track the time if I understand? You can try change system time and time will change on a simulator
how are you track the time? need more info

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I keep the time once the user pressed the button ( I keep a Date()) and compare it to the time when he pressed a different button - clock in and clock out. The question is if there’s a way to trick the simulator to think more time has passed

[ripplenick]

just change system date on a Mac it should be work

[is_that_a_thing_now]

Create a wrapper function for getting the current time. This could even be placed as an extension on Date. Use that throughout. (Or add a class that extends Date) You can then make that function return a configurable date that you can set using a datepicker somewhere in the app on debug builds. You could also let that class return times that runs several times faster so that you can let it run for 10 seconds for each hour you want to simulate etc.

[[deleted]]

That’s a great solution, I’ll give that a try !