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iphonecalendardayofweek

Need a list of week days with their number on iphone os

I'm working on a project that needs to have a list of weekdays.

I could get their locale names using the NSDateFormatter without a problem, but I was hoping to have an integer weekday also to save on the database and do some work.

Where can i get that number?

Thanks, Leonardo

Solution

  • See Apple Developers thread on NSDateComponents and weekday

    NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc]initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];

NSDateComponents *weekdayComponents =
        [gregorian components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:dateOfInterest];

NSInteger weekday = [weekdayComponents weekday];
// weekday 1 = Sunday for Gregorian calendar

[gregorian release];