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Calendar.MatchingPolicy.previousTimePreservingSmallerComponents

iOS 8.0+ iPadOS 8.0+ Mac Catalyst 8.0+ macOS 10.10+ tvOS 9.0+ watchOS 2.0+
If there is no matching time before the end of the next instance of the next higher component to the highest specified component in the DateComponents argument, the algorithm will return the previous existing value of the missing component and preserves the lower components’ values.
case previousTimePreservingSmallerComponents

Discussion

For example, during a daylight saving transition there may be no 2:37am. The result would then be 1:37am, if that does exist.