I need to be able to get the weekday from nsdate, i have the following code and it always return 1. I tried to change the month, i tried everything from 1 to 12 but the result of the week day is always 1.
NSDate *date2 = [[NSDate alloc] initWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d-%d-%d", 2010, 6, 1]];
unsigned units2 = NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayCalendarUnit;
NSCalendar *calendar2 = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components2 = [calendar2 components:units2 fromDate:date2];
int startWeekDay = [components2 weekday];
[date2 release];
[calendar2 release];
Creating an NSDateFormatter
that only contains the weekday will do what you want.
NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *weekday = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[weekday setDateFormat: @"EEEE"];
NSLog(@"The day of the week is: %@", [weekday stringFromDate:now]);
If you need internationalization, the NSDateFormatter
can be sent a locale, which will give the proper translation.
The date formatters are controlled through this standard: Unicode Date Formats