How to get NSDate day, month and year in integer format?

Question

I want to get the day, month and year components of NSDate in integer form i.e. if the date is 1/2/1988 then I should get 1, 2 and 1988 separately as an integer. How can I do this in iOS? I found the similar question but the method descriptionWithCalendarFormat: gives a warning and seems to be deprecated by now.

Answer 1

Here you are,

NSDate *currentDate = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar* calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents* components = [calendar components:NSCalendarUnitYear|NSCalendarUnitMonth|NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:currentDate]; // Get necessary date components

 [components month]; //gives you month
 [components day]; //gives you day
 [components year]; // gives you year

You can use NSDateComponents for that as above.

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