I have an NSDate and I want to find out the Week Day Name for the FIRST of the month from that NSDate. So for example I get given "15th of May 2013" and I want to return "Wednesday" as "1st of May 2013" was a Wednesday. Here is my test code;
// Setup a Date and Formatter and load with a date
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2013-05-10"];
NSLog(@"Day In Month : %@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);
// Setup a calendar and extract components and force to the first
NSCalendar *calendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
//NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *dateComponants = [calendar components:(NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit) fromDate:[NSDate date]];
[dateComponants setDay:1];
date = [calendar dateFromComponents:dateComponants];
NSLog(@"First Day : %@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);
// Change the formatter for the Day name
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
NSLog(@"Day Name : %@", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);
And here is what my log says....
Day In Month : 2013-05-10
First Day : 2013-06-01
Day Name : Saturday
What is the June date doing in the middle? In fact the 1st of June is a Saturday but that does not really help me.
Thanks for any help.