Get weekdays within a month

Question

I\'m trying to get the dates within a given month.

My plan is to

1. Get the start and the end dates of a given month,.
2. Get all the dates that fa

Answer 1

With the help of this answer, I was able to accomplish this.

let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let normalizedStartDate = calendar.startOfDayForDate(NSDate().startOfMonth)
let normalizedEndDate = calendar.startOfDayForDate(NSDate().endOfMonth)

var dates = [normalizedStartDate]
var currentDate = normalizedStartDate
repeat {
    currentDate = calendar.dateByAddingUnit(NSCalendarUnit.Day, value: 1, toDate: currentDate, options: .MatchNextTime)!
    dates.append(currentDate)
} while !calendar.isDate(currentDate, inSameDayAsDate: normalizedEndDate)

let weekdays = dates.filter { !calendar.isDateInWeekend($0) }
weekdays.forEach { date in
    print(NSDateFormatter.localizedStringFromDate(date, dateStyle: .FullStyle, timeStyle: .NoStyle))
}

And it works!

Monday, February 1, 2016
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Friday, February 5, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Friday, February 19, 2016
Monday, February 22, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Friday, February 26, 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016

Answer 2

For a more general answer than the one you've given above, you could implement your own SequenceType running over/generating NSDate elements.

Modifying the SequenceType DateRange implementation from this blog post by Adam Preble (Swift < 2.0), we can construct the following:

/* Modified version of Adam Preble:s DateRange: http://adampreble.net/blog/2014/09/iterating-over-range-of-dates-swift/ */
func < (left: NSDate, right: NSDate) -> Bool {
    return left.compare(right) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending
}

struct DateRange : SequenceType {
    var calendar: NSCalendar
    var startDate: NSDate
    var endDate: NSDate
    var stepUnits: NSCalendarUnit
    var stepValue: Int

    func generate() -> Generator {
        return Generator(range: self, firstDate: true)
    }

    struct Generator: GeneratorType {
        var range: DateRange
        var firstDate : Bool = true

        mutating func next() -> NSDate? {
            if firstDate {
                firstDate = false
                return range.startDate
            }

            guard let nextDate = range.calendar.dateByAddingUnit(range.stepUnits,
                value: range.stepValue, toDate: range.startDate,
                options: NSCalendarOptions.MatchFirst) where !(range.endDate < nextDate) else {
                    return nil
            }

            range.startDate = nextDate
            return nextDate
        }
    }
}

With this, you can iterate over a range of NSDate:s, just as you could over, say, a range of integers, without explicitly needing an array of NSDate objects.

Example usage (making use of you startOfMonth() and endOfMonth() extensions for NSDate):

/* Your NSDate extension */
extension NSDate {
    // ... as in your question above
}

/* Example usage */
let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "EEE, MMM. d, yyyy"

// print week days of current month, using DateRange (as well as your extension)
if let calendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian) {

    let dateRange = DateRange(calendar: calendar,
        startDate: NSDate().startOfMonth,
        endDate: NSDate().endOfMonth,
        stepUnits: NSCalendarUnit.Day,
        stepValue: 1)

    for date in dateRange where !calendar.isDateInWeekend(date) {
        print(formatter.stringFromDate(date))
    }
}

Output:

/* Mon, Feb. 1, 2016
   Tue, Feb. 2, 2016
   Wed, Feb. 3, 2016
   Thu, Feb. 4, 2016
   Fri, Feb. 5, 2016
   Mon, Feb. 8, 2016
   Tue, Feb. 9, 2016

   ...

   Thu, Feb. 25, 2016
   Fri, Feb. 26, 2016
   Mon, Feb. 29, 2016 */

---

A month worth of dates in an array ([NSDate]) is probably not an issue, but using a sequence instead is valuable for larger date spans, and also when you need versatility, w.r.t. re-assigning size and members of an array; especially an array in which you really only use one member, in sequence, at a time.

E.g. using an NSDate array in the example below would be quite un-necessary (and possibly yield unwanted overhead; but let's leave that as we want to avoid some commenter bringing up the subject of the sins of pre-mature optimization :) )

// versatile use of DateRange over somewhat "large" ranges of dates
formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
if let calendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian),
    startDate = formatter.dateFromString("2016-01-01"),
    endDate = formatter.dateFromString("2016-12-31") {

    formatter.dateFormat = "EEE, MMM. d, yyyy"

    // initialize dateRange instance
    var dateRange = DateRange(calendar: calendar,
        startDate: startDate,
        endDate: endDate,
        stepUnits: NSCalendarUnit.Day,
        stepValue: 1)

    // print all week days of 2016
    for date in dateRange where !calendar.isDateInWeekend(date) {
        print(formatter.stringFromDate(date))
    }
    print("")

    // re-use same dateRange instance and print
    // all week days of July 2016 -> June 2017
    formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
    if let startDate = formatter.dateFromString("2016-07-01"),
        endDate = formatter.dateFromString("2017-06-30") {

        // update dateRange instance
        dateRange.startDate = startDate
        dateRange.endDate = endDate
        formatter.dateFormat = "EEE, MMM. d, yyyy"
        for date in dateRange where calendar.isDateInWeekend(date) {
            print(formatter.stringFromDate(date))
        }
    }
}

Output:

/* Mon, Feb. 1, 2016
   Tue, Feb. 2, 2016
   Wed, Feb. 3, 2016
   Thu, Feb. 4, 2016
   Fri, Feb. 5, 2016
   Mon, Feb. 8, 2016
   Tue, Feb. 9, 2016

   ...

   Fri, Dec. 23, 2016
   Mon, Dec. 26, 2016
   Tue, Dec. 27, 2016
   Wed, Dec. 28, 2016
   Thu, Dec. 29, 2016
   Fri, Dec. 30, 2016

   // 2nd range print
   Fri, Jul. 1, 2016
   Mon, Jul. 4, 2016
   Tue, Jul. 5, 2016
   Wed, Jul. 6, 2016
   Thu, Jul. 7, 2016

   ...

   Fri, Jun. 23, 2017
   Mon, Jun. 26, 2017
   Tue, Jun. 27, 2017
   Wed, Jun. 28, 2017
   Thu, Jun. 29, 2017
   Fri, Jun. 30, 2017  */

Answer 3

• Get the current calendar

  let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
  

• Get the month and year date components from the current date

  let components = calendar.components([.Year, .Month], fromDate: NSDate())
  

• Get the date of the first day of the month

  let startOfMonth = calendar.dateFromComponents(components)!
  

• Get the number of days for the current month

  let numberOfDays = calendar.rangeOfUnit(.Day, inUnit: .Month, forDate: startOfMonth).length
  

• Create an array of NSDate instances for every day in the current month

  let allDays = Array(0..<numberOfDays).map{ calendar.dateByAddingUnit(.Day, value: $0, toDate: startOfMonth, options: [])!}
  

• Filter the days within a weekend

  let workDays = allDays.filter{ !calendar.isDateInWeekend($0) }
  

Swift 3:

let calendar = Calendar.current
let components = calendar.dateComponents([.year, .month], from: Date())
let startOfMonth = calendar.date(from:components)!
let numberOfDays = calendar.range(of: .day, in: .month, for: startOfMonth)!.upperBound
let allDays = Array(0..<numberOfDays).map{ calendar.date(byAdding:.day, value: $0, to: startOfMonth)!}
let workDays = allDays.filter{ !calendar.isDateInWeekend($0) }