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Local notifications firing immediately instead of when they are scheduled

I've been trying to schedule local notifications by weekday, but they seem to be firing immediately instead of when I schedule them. This is my code in AppDelegate in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

application.registerUserNotificationSettings(UIUserNotificationSettings(forTypes: .Alert, categories: nil))
        var notification = UILocalNotification()
        var components = NSDateComponents()
        var calendar = NSCalendar(identifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)
        components.weekday = 5
        components.hour = 9
        components.minute = 24
        notification.alertBody = "Notification test"
        notification.fireDate = calendar?.dateFromComponents(components)
        UIApplication.sharedApplication().scheduleLocalNotification(notification)

Any clues on why it might not be working?

Solution

  • As others have mentioned, make sure to specify the year and month properties of the components object.

    components.year = 2016
components.month = 6

    Part of the current fire date of your code is the following:

    0001-01-01

    Which means the notification will be fired at year "1" in January, not in 2016.