Hello, Let's say we are the 15/07/2010, I would like to get the first day of the previous week, which is the 5 of July. I have the following method but it does not work. Seems that I have a problem with the weekday attribute... + (NSDate *)getFirstDayOfPreviousWeek { // Get current date NSCalendar *cal = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCal...
I've made a clock, and I'm trying to update it so it displays, well, the time. When I initiate the NSDate it is an instance of the exact current time, for the time it was initiated. So what I have going on here is pinging the updateTime function with an NSTimer to update the clock every 3 seconds. It seems that there should be a way to ...
I'm trying to set some components of todays date with NSDateComponent like so: NSDateComponents *comps = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init]; [comps setDay:1]; [comps setHour:1]; [comps setMinute:44]; NSCalendar *cal = [[[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease]; NSDate *date = [...
Okay so i got this clas called event. It has a property called eventDate wich is a NSDate. I made a method to return how many years it is since the event date: - (double)yearsSinceEvent { double years; // Get the system calendar NSCalendar *sysCalendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar]; // Create the NSDates NSDate *...
I'm creating objects which will be sent to a server, and I'm trying to ensure I account for timezone and Daylight Savings issues, so I want my timestamps to be "seconds since 1970" regardless of timezone, etc. Is [NSDate timeintervalSinceReferenceDate] sufficient for this? In the docs I know it says time since January 1 1970 00:00:00 GM...
How to create new NSDate object from [myUIDatePicker date] ? ...
Hey everyone, I know this kind of questions have been asked a thousand times on this forum, but I have a slightly special case which I could really use some help with. I have an NSString *expirationDate with the value = "2010-06-23 04:28:59.341818" I need to convert to an NSDate object and compare against the current Date/Time. Can so...
How do I create a NSDate of August 1, 2005? Found NSDateComponent on the internet, but seems too complicated. ...
I have the following: NSDateFormatter* df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init]; [df setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"]; NSDate* date = [df dateFromString:[sDate stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"Z" withString:@"-0000"]]; [df release]; I would like the output string to be "9/20/10" How can I do this? ...
What's the simplest way to loop from one date to another? What I want conceptually is something like this: for (NSDate *date = [[startDate copy] autorelease]; [date compare: endDate] < 0; date = [date dateByAddingDays: 1]) { // do stuff here } This doesn't work, of course: there's no dateByAddingDays:. And even if it did, it...
hey i have my date as "7/30/2010". How do i print it as only the Month and Date ie. "7/30" I tried using NSFormatter but it prints my current date and not which is present in my database. ...
Hello, I'm using a UIDatePicker and I'm having problems with converting this data to a System.DateTime value in MonoTouch. There are problems with conversions from NSDate to DateTime, which I've mostly solved, but now I see that if you choose a date that is NOT in the same Daylight Savings Time period then you are an hour off. For exa...
Hi All, I was using the following method for creating NSDate Object based on the timezone and locale. descriptionWithCalendarFormat:timeZone:locale: [[NSDate date] descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%Y-%m-%d" timezone:nil locale:nil]; But this method is no mo...
I'm trying to use the NSDate dateFromString method but I'm getting an warning and it's crashing the app. The code looks like: NSString *pickerDate = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", timeSelector.date]; NSDate *defaultDate = [NSDate dateFromString:pickerDate]; The warning is: 'NSDate' may not respond to '+dateFromString'. It appear...
How to convert NSString 2010-08-03 04:37:31.0 to August 3, 2010? Is it possible? ...
If I want to use the compare method to compare two days: [day1 compare:day2] == NSOrderedAscending How to compare only by year-month-day? ...
I'm trying to extract the year from MPMediaItemPropertyReleaseDate in an MP3 file using iOS SDK 4.0 but it seems to always return Jan 1 1801 for the date. Does anyone know how to properly extract that from the returned NSDate? Here's what I'm doing: NSString *locale = [[NSLocale currentLocale] localeIdentifier]; NSLog([[mediaItem value...
Hi, everyone, I want to ask 2 questions about the NSDate of iPhone application. 1) How to set the NSDate *startDay to 01-01-2010 and NSDate *endDay to 31-12-2010 2) how many day between the startDay and the endDay. What should I do? Thank you very much. ...
I probably didn't word that title clearly enough, but if the user specifies a time of 2:30pm and it's currently 2:00pm, then I need an NSDate object that represents the current day with a time of 2:30pm. If the user specifies a time of 2:30pm and it's currently 3:00pm, then I need an NSDate object that represents tomorrow with a time of...
I'm extracting strings from a text that represent dates. They look like this: Monday August 16, 2010 05:28 AM EST I'm trying to parse them with a NSDateFormatter. I've set its format to: [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE MMMM d, YYYY h:mm a z"]; However, this doesn't work. For the example I gave above, if I convert the string to a ...