iphone Get current year as string

Question

How do I get current year as string in Obj-C ?

Also how do I compare the same using another year value ?

Is it advisable to do a string comparision OR dirctly ye

Answer 1

In Swift you can get only year by given code

let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy"
let dateStr = formatter.stringFromDate(NSDate())
print(dateStr)

Output:

2017