Get the Day from the date in iOS sdk

Question

In my app, want to get the day (i.e. Sunday, Monday,etc.) from the date.

My code is as follow:

NSDate *currentDate = [NSDat         


        

Answer 1

mydate = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dt2 = [ [NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dt2 setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];

NSString *day = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",[dt2 stringFromDate:mydate]];

Answer 2

i am using this and it worked for me in iOS 8.4

-(NSString *) extractDayFromDate {
     NSCalendar* calender = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
     NSDateComponents* component = [calender components:NSCalendarUnitWeekday fromDate:[NSDate date]];
     return [[calender weekdaySymbols] objectAtIndex:([component weekday]-1)]; 
}

Answer 3

 NSCalendar* calender = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

 NSDateComponents* component = [calender components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];

int weekDay = [component weekday];

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSString *weekdayString = [[formatter weekdaySymbols] objectAtIndex:weekDay - 1];

NSLog(@"Day ::: %@", weekdayString);

Answer 4

Try this :

    NSCalendar* calender = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    NSDateComponents* component = [calender components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
    return [component weekday]; // 1 for Sunday, 2 for Monday, and so on...

and see also this Day Name From NSDate? and this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1700102?start=0&tstart=0

Edit

try this

NSString * time = @"2013-06-30T11:00:26+0100";

NSDateFormatter *df = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"];
NSDate *date1 = [df dateFromString:time];
long lgTime = (long)[date1 timeIntervalSince1970];
NSLog(@"%ld", lgTime);


NSCalendar* calender = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents* component = [calender components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:date1];

NSLog(@"date=%@ === %@",[NSDate date],date1);
NSLog(@"day= %d",[component weekday]); ///it return 1

Answer 5

I have made a small NSDate category that helps you find the weekday name from a date. It returns the localised string for the names of the weekdays. Have a look at it. You can use it if you want to.

NKLocalizedWeekday+NSDate

Basically, this is the code you need:

NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components = [calendar components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
int weekdayNumber = [components weekday];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSString *weekdayString = [[formatter weekdaySymbols] objectAtIndex:weekdayNumber - 1];

Answer 6

NSDateFormatter* theDateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[theDateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
[theDateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
NSString *weekDay =  [theDateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];