Get first day in a month from NSCalendar

Question

I have this subset of a method that needs to get day one of the current month.

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];  // returns correctly 28 february 2013
NSCalend         


        

Answer 1

Easy Way to get first and last date of previous month is :

NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian];
NSDateComponents *comp = [gregorian components:(NSCalendarUnitYear | NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitDay ) fromDate:[NSDate date]];

//TO GET PREVIOUS MONTH LAST DAY
[comp setMonth:[comp month]];
[comp setDay:1];
NSDate *tDateMonth = [gregorian dateFromComponents:comp];
NSLog(@"LAST DAY OF PREVIOUS MONTH ;  %@", tDateMonth);

//TO GET PREVIOUS MONTH FIRST DAY
[comp setMonth:[comp month]-1];
[comp setDay:3];
NSDate *td = [gregorian dateFromComponents:comp];
NSLog(@"FIRST DAY OF PREVIOUS MONTH ;  %@", td);

Hope this helps