NSCalendar Archives

Imagine you had an NSDate object and want to add days several to it. We can use NSDate method dateByAddingComponents for this, which takes – as you may have guessed – NSDateComponents as parameters. In this example, let’s assume we want to know what date it is 5 days from today: int daysToAdd = 5; […]

Imagine you had two NSDate objects and you’d like to find out the time interval between those dates. NSDate objects alone won’t help us out there unless we do some serious NSDateFormatting and hair pulling. Lucky for us there are a few other classes available that will help us do this, namely NSCalendar and NSDateComponents. […]