Comparing certain components of NSDate?

Question

How would I compare only the year-month-day components of 2 NSDates?

Answer 1

Check out this topic NSDate get year/month/day

Once you pull out the day/month/year, you can compare them as integers.

If you don't like that method

Instead, you could try this..

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy"];
int year = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]] intValue];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"MM"];
int month = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]] intValue];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd"];
int day = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]] intValue];

• And another way...

  NSDateComponents *dateComp = [calendar components:unitFlags fromDate:date];
  
  NSInteger year = [dateComp year];
  
  NSInteger month = [dateComp month];
  
  NSInteger day = [dateComp day];