Day Name From NSDate?

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I would like to show the name of day in my iPhone application and i don't found the solution. Thanks for help

score 118 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '11 at 09:08

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NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
NSString *dayName = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:yourDate];
[dateFormatter release];

You get dayName in the locale of the user.

(check Unicode standards for date formats samples)

answered Jan 20 '11 at 09:08

Jilouc

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FYI different versions of iOS/macOS use different versions of the Unicode standard; I found an older table of them at https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/DataFormatting/Articles/dfDateFormatting10_4.html – rakslice Nov 06 '16 at 07:24
I am getting an abreviation with this: "Thu" – htafoya Mar 17 '17 at 04:50

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 09:10

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I found it, the answer was :

NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
NSLog(@"%@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:now]);

Thanks

answered Jan 20 '11 at 09:10

Amine Arous

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 04 '13 at 18:03

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NSDate category

+ (NSString *)dayNameWith0Monday:(NSInteger)index {

    static NSDateFormatter * DateFormatter = nil;
    if (DateFormatter == nil) {
        DateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [DateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
        [DateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];
    }

    NSDate * day = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:((4 * 24 * 60 * 60) + (24 * 60 * 60 * index))];
    return [DateFormatter stringFromDate:day];
}

0 will always be Monday! in case you need such behaviour

answered Dec 04 '13 at 18:03

Peter Lapisu

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am I missing something or there is no way for DateFormatter to be != nil in a class method? – Andrespch Apr 13 '16 at 07:54
you can possibly omit the DateFormatter = nil; – Peter Lapisu Apr 13 '16 at 20:57

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 09:04

Look at -[NSCalendar components:fromDate:].

A date by itself doesn't have a day, because it may have different days in different calendars (Gregorian, Chinese, etc.).

EDIT: actually, sorry. That's what you would do to get the day and work with it programmatically. If you only want to display the day, look at NSDateFormatter.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 18 '17 at 06:39

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@Jilouc answer in Swift:

let formatter = DateFormatter.init()
formatter.dateFormat = "EEEE"
let date = Date.init() //or any date
let dayName = formatter.string(from: date)

answered Jul 18 '17 at 06:39

Hemang

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 09:08

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There a many great resources for date and time processing - this is one I've learnt from over on github.

answered Jan 20 '11 at 09:08

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