get NSDate today, yesterday, this Week, last Week, this Month, last Month... variables

IphoneTimeComparisonNsdate

Iphone Problem Overview

I am trying to do is to get NSDate today, yesterday, this Week, last Week, this Month, last Month variables ready for comparison for headers to be added on UITableView's titleForHeaderInSection

What I want is done manually in the code below for date 2009-12-11

 NSDate *today = [NSDate dateWithString:@"2009-12-11 00:00:00 +0000"];
 NSDate *yesterday = [NSDate dateWithString:@"2009-12-10 00:00:00 +0000"];
 NSDate *thisWeek = [NSDate dateWithString:@"2009-12-06 00:00:00 +0000"];
 NSDate *lastWeek = [NSDate dateWithString:@"2009-11-30 00:00:00 +0000"];
 NSDate *thisMonth = [NSDate dateWithString:@"2009-12-01 00:00:00 +0000"];
 NSDate *lastMonth = [NSDate dateWithString:@"2009-11-01 00:00:00 +0000"];

Iphone Solutions

Solution 1 - Iphone

Adapted from the Date and Time Programming Guide:

// Right now, you can remove the seconds into the day if you want
NSDate *today = [NSDate date];

// All intervals taken from Google
NSDate *yesterday = [today dateByAddingTimeInterval: -86400.0];
NSDate *thisWeek  = [today dateByAddingTimeInterval: -604800.0];
NSDate *lastWeek  = [today dateByAddingTimeInterval: -1209600.0];

// To get the correct number of seconds in each month use NSCalendar
NSDate *thisMonth = [today dateByAddingTimeInterval: -2629743.83];
NSDate *lastMonth = [today dateByAddingTimeInterval: -5259487.66];

If you want the correct exact number of days depending on the month, you should use an NSCalendar.

Solution 2 - Iphone

Might be a better way to write this but here what i came up on Ben's NSCalendar suggestion and working from there to NSDateComponents

NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components = [cal components:( NSCalendarUnitHour | NSCalendarUnitMinute | NSCalendarUnitSecond ) fromDate:[[NSDate alloc] init]];

[components setHour:-[components hour]];
[components setMinute:-[components minute]];
[components setSecond:-[components second]];
NSDate *today = [cal dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:[[NSDate alloc] init] options:0]; //This variable should now be pointing at a date object that is the start of today (midnight);

[components setHour:-24];
[components setMinute:0];
[components setSecond:0];
NSDate *yesterday = [cal dateByAddingComponents:components toDate: today options:0];

components = [cal components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit | NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:[[NSDate alloc] init]];

[components setDay:([components day] - ([components weekday] - 1))]; 
NSDate *thisWeek  = [cal dateFromComponents:components];

[components setDay:([components day] - 7)];
NSDate *lastWeek  = [cal dateFromComponents:components];

[components setDay:([components day] - ([components day] -1))]; 
NSDate *thisMonth = [cal dateFromComponents:components];

[components setMonth:([components month] - 1)]; 
NSDate *lastMonth = [cal dateFromComponents:components];

NSLog(@"today=%@",today);
NSLog(@"yesterday=%@",yesterday);
NSLog(@"thisWeek=%@",thisWeek);
NSLog(@"lastWeek=%@",lastWeek);
NSLog(@"thisMonth=%@",thisMonth);
NSLog(@"lastMonth=%@",lastMonth);

Solution 3 - Iphone

NSDateComponents is nice to get today:

NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSDateComponents *comps = [cal components:(NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit) 
                                                          fromDate:date];
NSDate *today = [cal dateFromComponents:comps];

This creates a NSDate with only year, month and date:

(gdb) po today
2010-06-22 00:00:00 +0200

To get yesterday, etc. you can calculate it using NSDateComponents:

NSDateComponents *components = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
[components setDay:-1];
NSDate *yesterday = [cal dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:today options:0];

Solution 4 - Iphone

+ (NSDate*)dateFor:(enum DateType)dateType {
    
    NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    
    NSDateComponents *comps =
    [calendar components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit
                fromDate:[NSDate date]];
    
    if(dateType == DateYesterday) {
        
        comps.day--;
    }
    else if(dateType == DateThisWeek) {
        
        comps.weekday = 1;
    }
    else if(dateType == DateLastWeek) {
        
        comps.weekday = 1;
        comps.week--;
    }
    else if(dateType == DateThisMonth) {
        
        comps.day = 1;
    }
    else if(dateType == DateLastMonth) {
        
        comps.day = 1;
        comps.month--;
    }
    else if(dateType != DateToday)
        return nil;
    
    return [calendar dateFromComponents:comps];
}

Solution 5 - Iphone

Swift 4.2

let today = Date()
let yesterday = today.addingTimeInterval(-86400.0)
let thisWeek = today.addingTimeInterval(-604800.0)
let lastWeek = today.addingTimeInterval(-1209600.0)

let thisMonth = today.addingTimeInterval(-2629743.83)
let lastMonth = today.addingTimeInterval(-5259487.66)

// components of the date
let calendar = Calendar(identifier: Calendar.Identifier.gregorian)
let components = calendar.dateComponents([.year, .month, .day], from: today)
let (year, month, day) = (components.year, components.month, components.day)

Please note that date components are optional.

Solution 6 - Iphone

The other answers just didn't work for me (maybe because of my time zone). This is how I do it:

- (BOOL)isOnThisWeek:(NSDate *)dateToCompare
{
    NSCalendar * calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    NSDate     * today    = [NSDate date];

    int todaysWeek        = [[calendar components: NSWeekCalendarUnit fromDate:today] week];
    int dateToCompareWeek = [[calendar components: NSWeekCalendarUnit fromDate:dateToCompare] week];

    int todaysYear         = [[calendar components:NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:today] year];
    int dateToCompareYear  = [[calendar components:NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:dateToCompare] year];

    if (todaysWeek == dateToCompareWeek && todaysYear == dateToCompareYear) {
        return YES;
    }

    return NO;
}

Solution 7 - Iphone

If you're using iOS 10+ or MacOS 10.12+, you can use these two Calendar methods to do this properly.

  • func date(byAdding component: Calendar.Component, value: Int, to date: Date, wrappingComponents: Bool = default) -> Date? (docs)
  • func dateInterval(of component: Calendar.Component, for date: Date) -> DateInterval? (docs)

Here's an example of how to use these methods in Swift 3, along with the playgrounds output in my time zone.

let calendar = Calendar.current
let now = Date()
// => "Apr 28, 2017, 3:33 PM"

let yesterday = calendar.date(byAdding: .day, value: -1, to: now)
// => "Apr 29, 2017, 3:33 PM"
let yesterdayStartOfDay = calendar.startOfDay(for: yesterday!)
// => ""Apr 29, 2017, 12:00 AM"

let thisWeekInterval = calendar.dateInterval(of: .weekOfYear, for: now)
// => 2017-04-23 04:00:00 +0000 to 2017-04-30 04:00:00 +0000

let thisMonthInterval = calendar.dateInterval(of: .month, for: now)
// => 2017-04-01 04:00:00 +0000 to 2017-05-01 04:00:00 +0000

let aDateInLastWeek = calendar.date(byAdding: .weekOfYear, value: -1, to: now)
let lastWeekInterval = calendar.dateInterval(of: .weekOfYear, for: aDateInLastWeek!)
// => 2017-04-16 04:00:00 +0000 to 2017-04-23 04:00:00 +0000

let aDateInLastMonth = calendar.date(byAdding: .month, value: -1, to: now)
let lastMonthInterval = calendar.dateInterval(of: .weekOfYear, for: aDateInLastMonth!)
// => 2017-03-26 04:00:00 +0000 to 2017-04-02 04:00:00 +0000

Bonus: You can use the DateIntervals to test whether a date falls in that range. Continuing from above:

thisWeekInterval!.contains(now)
// => true
lastMonthInterval!.contains(now)
// => false

Solution 8 - Iphone

NSDate *today = [NSDate date]; // Today's date
NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDateComponents *weekdayComponents =[gregorian componentsNSDayCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayCalendarUnit) fromDate:today];
NSInteger day = [weekdayComponents day];

Solution 9 - Iphone

I really like the THCalendarInfo object contained in this project:

http://github.com/jaredholdcroft/kcalendar

I can't quite find the original. Using this object you can move to a previous day, the start of a week, the start of a month, get the day of a week, the day of a month... etc. etc.

Solution 10 - Iphone

NSDate *today = [[NSDate alloc] initWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0];

Solution 11 - Iphone

This is for check the date is this month or not

func isOnThisMonth(dateToCompare: NSDate) -> Bool {
    let calendar: NSCalendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
    let today: NSDate = NSDate()
    let todaysWeek: Int = calendar.components(NSCalendarUnit.Month, fromDate: today).month
    let dateToCompareWeek: Int = calendar.components(.Month, fromDate: dateToCompare).month
    let todaysYear: Int = calendar.components(NSCalendarUnit.Year, fromDate: today).year
    let dateToCompareYear: Int = calendar.components(NSCalendarUnit.Year, fromDate: dateToCompare).year
    if todaysWeek == dateToCompareWeek && todaysYear == dateToCompareYear {
        return true
    }
    return false
}

And second one only change type of calendarUnit for weak like this

func isOnThisWeek(dateToCompare: NSDate) -> Bool {
    let calendar: NSCalendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
    let today: NSDate = NSDate()
    let todaysWeek: Int = calendar.components(NSCalendarUnit.Weekday, fromDate: today).weekday
    let dateToCompareWeek: Int = calendar.components(.Weekday, fromDate: dateToCompare).weekday
    let todaysYear: Int = calendar.components(NSCalendarUnit.Year, fromDate: today).year
    let dateToCompareYear: Int = calendar.components(NSCalendarUnit.Year, fromDate: dateToCompare).year
    if todaysWeek == dateToCompareWeek && todaysYear == dateToCompareYear {
        return true
    }
    return false
}

I hope this is helpful to someone Thanks.

Solution 12 - Iphone

I answered a similar question already and here's why my answer is better:

  • Swift 3!
  • Utilizes DateFormatter's "Yesterday" and "Today". This is already translated by Apple, which saves you work!
  • Uses DateComponentsFormatter's already translated "1 week" string. (Again less work for you, courtesy of Apple.) All you have to do is translate the "%@ ago" string. 
  • The other answers incorrectly calculate the time when the day switches from "today" to "yesterday" to etc. Fixed constants are a big NO-NO because reasons. Also, the other answers use the current date/time when they should use the end of the current day's date/time.
  • Uses autoupdatingCurrent for Calendar & Locale which ensures your app is immediately up to date with the user's calendar and language preferences in Settings.app
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