How do I get weekday and/or name of month from a NSDate variable?

Question

Alright. The problem we\'re having is that we have NSStrings filled with dates in the format of yyyyMMdd and what we want to do is to get the current weekday and name of mon

Answer 1

NSString *strDate=@"20110407";
NSDateFormatter *df=[[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[df setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMdd"];
NSDate *targetDate=[df dateFromString:strDate];
[df setDateFormat:@"EEEE MMMM dd, yyyy"];
NSString *s=[df stringFromDate:targetDate];

NSLog(@"Date: %@", s);

Answer 2

You can use (For Swift and Türkiye localization):

dateFormatter.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "tr_TR") as Locale

Answer 3

Hope this helps

NSCalendar *calendar= [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSCalendarUnit unitFlags = NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit |  NSDayCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit;
NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSDateComponents *dateComponents = [calendar components:unitFlags fromDate:date];

NSInteger year = [dateComponents year];
NSInteger month = [dateComponents month];
NSInteger day = [dateComponents day];
NSInteger hour = [dateComponents hour];
NSInteger minute = [dateComponents minute];
NSInteger second = [dateComponents second];

[calendar release];

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Answer 4

There is no need to manually convert to the Swedish words. iPhone will do it for you. Try this:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"yyyyMMdd";
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"20111010"];

// set swedish locale
dateFormatter.locale=[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"sv_SE"];

dateFormatter.dateFormat=@"MMMM";
NSString *monthString = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date] capitalizedString];
NSLog(@"month: %@", monthString);

dateFormatter.dateFormat=@"EEEE";
NSString *dayString = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date] capitalizedString];
NSLog(@"day: %@", dayString);

Output:

month: Oktober
day: Måndag

Answer 5

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
NSString *dayName = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:Date];

this dayName will be available in the locale of user.

Answer 6

Simple Swift 3 extensions:

// Weekday
extension Date {
    func dayOfWeek() -> String? {
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE"
        return dateFormatter.string(from: self).capitalized
        // or capitalized(with: locale)
    }
}

print(Date().dayOfWeek()!) // Wednesday

// Month Name
extension Date {
    func monthName() -> String? {
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMMM"
        return dateFormatter.string(from: self).capitalized
        // or capitalized(with: locale)
    }
}

print(Date().monthName()!) // October