How to get Monday's date of the current week in swift

Question

I'm trying to get Monday's date of the current week. This is treated as the first day of the week in my table view. I also need to get Sunday's of the current week. This is treated as the last day of the week in my table view.

Current attempt:

let date = NSDate()
let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
calendar.firstWeekday = 1
//attempt to changefirstday

let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
let theDateFormat = NSDateFormatterStyle.ShortStyle
let theTimeFormat = NSDateFormatterStyle.ShortStyle
dateFormatter.dateStyle = theDateFormat
dateFormatter.timeStyle = theTimeFormat

let currentDateComponents = calendar.components([.YearForWeekOfYear, .WeekOfYear ], fromDate: date)
let startOfWeek = calendar.dateFromComponents(currentDateComponents)
print("startOfWeek is \(startOfWeek)")
let stringDate = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(startOfWeek!)
print("string date is \(stringDate)") //This is returning Sunday's date

Answer 1

I wrote Date extensions to get Date for certain weekday and here is how easy it is to use with Swift 5,

Date.today()                                  // Oct 15, 2019 at 9:21 AM
Date.today().next(.monday)                    // Oct 21, 2019 at 9:21 AM
Date.today().next(.sunday)                    //  Oct 20, 2019 at 9:21 AM


Date.today().previous(.sunday)                // Oct 13, 2019 at 9:21 AM
Date.today().previous(.monday)                // Oct 14, 2019 at 9:21 AM

Date.today().previous(.thursday)              // Oct 10, 2019 at 9:21 AM
Date.today().next(.thursday)                  // Oct 17, 2019 at 9:21 AM
Date.today().previous(.thursday,
                      considerToday: true)    // Oct 10, 2019 at 9:21 AM


Date.today().next(.monday)
            .next(.sunday)
            .next(.thursday)                  // Oct 31, 2019 at 9:21 AM

And here is Date extension for that,

extension Date {

  static func today() -> Date {
      return Date()
  }

  func next(_ weekday: Weekday, considerToday: Bool = false) -> Date {
    return get(.next,
               weekday,
               considerToday: considerToday)
  }

  func previous(_ weekday: Weekday, considerToday: Bool = false) -> Date {
    return get(.previous,
               weekday,
               considerToday: considerToday)
  }

  func get(_ direction: SearchDirection,
           _ weekDay: Weekday,
           considerToday consider: Bool = false) -> Date {

    let dayName = weekDay.rawValue

    let weekdaysName = getWeekDaysInEnglish().map { $0.lowercased() }

    assert(weekdaysName.contains(dayName), "weekday symbol should be in form \(weekdaysName)")

    let searchWeekdayIndex = weekdaysName.firstIndex(of: dayName)! + 1

    let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)

    if consider && calendar.component(.weekday, from: self) == searchWeekdayIndex {
      return self
    }

    var nextDateComponent = calendar.dateComponents([.hour, .minute, .second], from: self)
    nextDateComponent.weekday = searchWeekdayIndex

    let date = calendar.nextDate(after: self,
                                 matching: nextDateComponent,
                                 matchingPolicy: .nextTime,
                                 direction: direction.calendarSearchDirection)

    return date!
  }

}

// MARK: Helper methods
extension Date {
  func getWeekDaysInEnglish() -> [String] {
    var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
    calendar.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")
    return calendar.weekdaySymbols
  }

  enum Weekday: String {
    case monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday
  }

  enum SearchDirection {
    case next
    case previous

    var calendarSearchDirection: Calendar.SearchDirection {
      switch self {
      case .next:
        return .forward
      case .previous:
        return .backward
      }
    }
  }
}

Answer 2

You can use calendar ISO8601 where the first weekday is Monday:

Swift 5.2 or later

extension Calendar {
    static let iso8601 = Calendar(identifier: .iso8601)
    static let iso8601UTC: Calendar = {
        var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .iso8601)
        calendar.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")!
        return calendar
    }()
}

---

let monday =
    Calendar.iso8601.dateComponents([.calendar, .yearForWeekOfYear, .weekOfYear], from: Date()).date!  // "Nov 9, 2020 at 12:00 AM"
print(monday.description(with: .current))   // "Monday, November 9, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM Brasilia Standard Time\n"
let mondayUTC =
    Calendar.iso8601UTC.dateComponents([.calendar, .yearForWeekOfYear, .weekOfYear], from: Date()).date!  // "Nov 8, 2020 at 9:00 PM" TimeZone -03:00
print(mondayUTC)   // "2020-11-09 00:00:00 +0000\n"

---

Implemented as a Date computer property extension:

extension Date {
    var mondayOfTheSameWeek: Date {
        Calendar.iso8601.dateComponents([.calendar, .yearForWeekOfYear, .weekOfYear], from: self).date!
    }
    var mondayOfTheSameWeekAtUTC: Date {
        Calendar.iso8601UTC.dateComponents([.calendar, .yearForWeekOfYear, .weekOfYear], from: self).date!
    }
}

---

let mondayOfTheSameWeek = Date().mondayOfTheSameWeek   // "Nov 9, 2020 at 12:00 AM"
print(mondayOfTheSameWeek.description(with: .current)) // "Monday, November 9, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM Brasilia Standard Time\n"
let mondayOfTheSameWeekAtUTC = Date().mondayOfTheSameWeekAtUTC  // "Nov 8, 2020 at 9:00 PM"
print(mondayOfTheSameWeekAtUTC) // "2020-11-09 00:00:00 +0000\n"