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

NSDate *startDate = nil;
[[NSCalendar currentCalendar] rangeOfUnit:NSCalendarUnitMonth startDate:&startDate interval:NULL forDate:date];

return startDate;