Remove the “Today” entry from UIDatePicker

Question

When using a UIDatePicker in iOS SDK, there is always an entry \"Today\" at the current date. That\'s useful in most cases, but where I need it, it\'s rather confusing.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with the UIDatePicker not matching my requirements exactly (in my case I needed a datepicker without a year wheel). Having a look at the UIDatePicker reference, it doesn't look like you can disable the today entry, so you might be forced to do what I did.

I used a UIPickerView and re-implemented the date selection functionality I needed with that. There are a few things you will need to do to implement your custom date picker:

• Implement a UIPickerViewDataSource to set up row titles, dimensions and row counts.
• Implement a UIPickerViewDelegate to handle events from your custom picker.
• Make sure you update your day wheel when the month wheel changes so you get appropriate days for each month. UIDatePicker does this pretty seamlessly. With limited time, I just reload the picker when the month changes so the day counts match up.