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How to find weekday from today's date using NSDate?

I know that I can figure out today's date by [NSDate date]; but how would I find out today day of the week, like Saturday, Friday etc.

I know that %w can be used in NSDateFormatter, but I don't know to use it.

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Vibhor Goyal Avatar asked Mar 17 '10 21:03

Vibhor Goyal


1 Answers

NSCalendar* cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar]; NSDateComponents* comp = [cal components:NSCalendarUnitWeekday fromDate:[NSDate date]]; return [comp weekday]; // 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc. 

See @HuguesBR's answer if you just need the weekday without other components (requires iOS 8+).

NSInteger weekday = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] component:NSCalendarUnitWeekday                                                     fromDate:[NSDate date]]; 

(If you don't get a correct answer, check if you have mistyped NSCalendarUnitWeekday with other week-related components like NSCalendarUnitWeekdayOrdinal, etc.)


Swift 3:

let weekday = Calendar.current.component(.weekday, from: Date()) // 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc. 
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kennytm Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 21:09

kennytm