If statement with dates

Question

what I am trying to do is make a if statement with dates using greater than less than signs. For some reason only the greater than sign works. Here is my code:

Answer 1

Here you are comparing string objects, with < and >, which does not do what you are expecting. You can use NSDateComponents to get the hour and minute to compare those:

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];

NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc]

                     initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];

NSDateComponents *components =

                [gregorian components:(NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit ) fromDate:today];

NSInteger hour = [weekdayComponents hour];

NSInteger minutes = [weekdayComponents minute];

BOOL homeroom = (hour == 8) && (minute < 10);

Or you can create a specific NSDate for 8:10 and 8:00 using NSDateFormater and using the compare: function.