get just the month, day or year part of NSDate?

Question

Say I have the following:

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];

How do I just the get integer value for the month? day? or year?

Answer 1

You want this NSDateCOmponenets

specifically:

- (NSDateComponents *)components:(NSUInteger)unitFlags  fromDate:(NSDate *)date

Answer 2

Or you could just use the NSDate class:

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
    int month = [[date descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%m" timeZone:nil locale:nil] intValue];
    int day = [[date descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%d" timeZone:nil locale:nil] intValue];
    int year = [[date descriptionWithCalendarFormat:@"%Y" timeZone:nil locale:nil] intValue];

    NSLog(@"Today: %i-%i-%i", year, month, day);

Hope it works, ief2