How to create an NSDate date object?

Question

How can I create an NSDate from the day, month and year? There don\'t seem to be any methods to do this and they have removed the class method dateWithString<

Answer 1

You could write a category for this. I did that, this is how the code looks:

//  NSDateCategory.h

#import 

@interface NSDate (MBDateCat) 

+ (NSDate *)dateWithYear:(NSInteger)year month:(NSInteger)month day:(NSInteger)day;

@end



//  NSDateCategory.m

#import "NSDateCategory.h"

@implementation NSDate (MBDateCat)

+ (NSDate *)dateWithYear:(NSInteger)year month:(NSInteger)month day:(NSInteger)day {
    NSCalendar *calendar = [[[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease];
    NSDateComponents *components = [[[NSDateComponents alloc] init] autorelease];
    [components setYear:year];
    [components setMonth:month];
    [components setDay:day];
    return [calendar dateFromComponents:components];
}

@end

Use it like this: NSDate *aDate = [NSDate dateWithYear:2010 month:5 day:12];