Need to show only Weekday with Date UIDatePicker in iPhone

Question

Hi is there any way to show only weekday with Date as: MON 03-JUL in UIDatePicker in iPhone. Please help.

Answer 1

No, as far as I know there is no way to set a custom date format in UIDatePicker. Anyways, it wouldn't make much sense to display only the weekdays in a date picker, because you would end up with multiple entries for each weekday:

• Fri (3rd)
• Sat (4th)
• Sun (5th)
• ...
• Fri (10th)
• Sat (11th)
• ...

If you only want the user to pick a weekday (Mon-Sun), you could simply use a UIPickerView. And make sure you don't hard-code the weekday names, but rather use - (NSArray *)weekdaySymbols on NSDateFormatter. This will take the user's locale into account and returns an array of weekday names as strings:

NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
NSArray* weekdays = [dateFormatter weekdaySymbols];
// will return Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday (en_US locale)

Alternatively you can use shortWeekdaySymbols:

NSDateFormatter* dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
NSArray* weekdays = [dateFormatter shortWeekdaySymbols];
// will return Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat (en_US locale)