Getting first and last days of current week

Question

How can I get first and last days of the current week? What I need is some way of filtering a set of objects with NSDate property to leave only ones, that appear on current week, and then filter them by days. Also I need some way to get localized day names.

I've tried to play with NSCalendar, NSDate and NSDateComponents, but it seems that I can't just check calendar's firstWeekday, as there might be weeks with days from previous/next month.

Answer 1

Ok, here it goes, a python snippet that does the job

def daySec(diff):
    return 60*60*24*diff

def weekDays(dt=None):
    if not dt:
        dt = NSDate.date() # use today
    cal = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
    dc = cal.components_fromDate_(NSWeekdayCalendarUnit|NSYearCalendarUnit|NSMonthCalendarUnit|NSDayCalendarUnit, dt)
    normDt = cal.dateFromComponents_(dc) # get the day-rounded date
    shift = dc.weekday() - cal.firstWeekday()
    firstDt = normDt.dateByAddingTimeInterval_(daySec(-shift))
    lastDt = normDt.dateByAddingTimeInterval_(daySec(-shift+7)) # up to next week's first day midnight
    return (firstDt, lastDt)