How do I know what day a given date is?

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For example, given a date 13/09/2013(it is Saturday), how can I know what day it is in code? are there some methods in NSCalendar or NSdate can calculate this for me?

Don't know if this is the proper one, if you use NSDateFormatter, with format EEEE you can get the day of the date. — Anupdas, Sep 12 '13 at 16:04
I added Sep instead of 9 to counter that :P I'm fairly confident other calendars will have a ninth month, but I doubt they have a "September" =] — James Webster, Sep 12 '13 at 16:22
[Julian calendar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar) has September :) — David Rönnqvist, Sep 12 '13 at 16:23

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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You can use a DateFormatter to get the day of the week for a specific date as a string. You can also use NSDateComponents to get an integer value that represents the day of week.

See this SO post and answers...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4269211

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Sep 12 '13 at 16:07

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 13 '13 at 17:31

You can also (but I'm not sure if it's better in any way) get the weekday component and names from the calendar.

NSDate *yourDate     = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *weekdayComponent = 
    [calendar components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit
                                    fromDate:yourDate];

NSString *dayName = calendar.weekdaySymbols[weekdayComponent.weekday-1];

NSLog(@"today is %@", dayName); // Output: today is Thursday

How do I know what day a given date is?

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