I want to get today's date without time [closed]

Question

Currently what I am doing is I am comparing some date say oldDate with today's date

             NSDate *dt = [NSDate date];
             NSComparisonResult result = [oldDate compare:dt];
            if (result == NSOrderedAscending)
            { 
              // do something
            }

dt gives me today's date with time also. But I want just date and no time. How can I achieve it ?

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd/MM/YYYY"];
NSString *dateString=[dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

Answer 2

To take care about timezones and everything you could do something like this:

- (NSInteger)day {
    NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSDayCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:self];
    return [components day];
}

- (NSInteger)month {
    NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSDayCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:self];
    return [components month];
}

- (NSInteger)year {
    NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:self];
    return [components year];
}

Of course you can put it all together in one function just remember to alter components accordingly.

Caveat: If you want something to show to the user, use one of the other answers with NSDateFormatter.