Modifying NSDate to represent 1 month from today

Question

I\'m adding repeating events to a Cocoa app I\'m working on. I have repeat every day and week fine because I can define these mathematically (3600*24*7 = 1 week). I use the foll

Answer 1

(Almost the same as this question.)

From the documentation:

Use of NSCalendarDate strongly discouraged. It is not deprecated yet, however it may be in the next major OS release after Mac OS X v10.5. For calendrical calculations, you should use suitable combinations of NSCalendar, NSDate, and NSDateComponents, as described in Calendars in Dates and Times Programming Topics for Cocoa.

Following that advice:

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];

NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];

NSDateComponents *components = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
components.month = 1;
NSDate *nextMonth = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:today options:0];
[components release];

NSDateComponents *nextMonthComponents = [gregorian components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:nextMonth];

NSDateComponents *todayDayComponents = [gregorian components:NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:today];

nextMonthComponents.day = todayDayComponents.day;
NSDate *nextMonthDay = [gregorian dateFromComponents:nextMonthComponents];

[gregorian release];

There may be a more direct or efficient implementation, but this should be accurate and should point in the right direction.