Get the Day from the date in iOS sdk

Question

In my app, want to get the day (i.e. Sunday, Monday,etc.) from the date.

My code is as follow:

NSDate *currentDate = [NSDat         


        

Answer 1

Try this :

    NSCalendar* calender = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    NSDateComponents* component = [calender components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
    return [component weekday]; // 1 for Sunday, 2 for Monday, and so on...

and see also this Day Name From NSDate? and this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1700102?start=0&tstart=0

Edit

try this

NSString * time = @"2013-06-30T11:00:26+0100";

NSDateFormatter *df = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"];
NSDate *date1 = [df dateFromString:time];
long lgTime = (long)[date1 timeIntervalSince1970];
NSLog(@"%ld", lgTime);


NSCalendar* calender = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents* component = [calender components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:date1];

NSLog(@"date=%@ === %@",[NSDate date],date1);
NSLog(@"day= %d",[component weekday]); ///it return 1