How to find what day of the week for any given date using Cocoa

Question

I'm trying to figure out what day (i.e. Monday, Friday...) of any given date (i.e. Jun 27th, 2009)

Thank you.

Answer 1

I've been doing:

NSDateFormatter* theDateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[theDateFormatter setFormatterBehavior:NSDateFormatterBehavior10_4];
[theDateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
NSString *weekDay =  [theDateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

This has the added bonus of letting you choose how you'd like the weekday to be returned (by changing the date format string in the setDateFormat: call

Lots more information at:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/DataFormatting/Articles/dfDateFormatting10_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002369