Get Day of Week Using Nsdate

Get day of week using NSDate

What you are looking for (if I understand the question correctly) is NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitWeekday. The corresponding property of NSDateComponents is weekday.

Note also that your date format is wrong (the
full specification can be found here: http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-6.html).

The function can be simplified slightly, using automatic type inference, also you use variables a lot where constants are sufficient.
In addition, the function should return an optional which is nil
for an invalid input string.

Updated code for Swift 3 and later:

func getDayOfWeek(_ today:String) -> Int? {
    let formatter  = DateFormatter()
    formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
    guard let todayDate = formatter.date(from: today) else { return nil }
    let myCalendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
    let weekDay = myCalendar.component(.weekday, from: todayDate)
    return weekDay
}

Example:

if let weekday = getDayOfWeek("2014-08-27") {
    print(weekday)
} else {
    print("bad input")
}

Original answer for Swift 2:

func getDayOfWeek(today:String)->Int? {

    let formatter  = NSDateFormatter()
    formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
    if let todayDate = formatter.dateFromString(today) {
        let myCalendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)!
        let myComponents = myCalendar.components(.Weekday, fromDate: todayDate)
        let weekDay = myComponents.weekday
        return weekDay
    } else {
        return nil
    }
}

How to find weekday from today's date using NSDate?

NSCalendar* cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents* comp = [cal components:NSCalendarUnitWeekday fromDate:[NSDate date]];
return [comp weekday]; // 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc.

See @HuguesBR's answer if you just need the weekday without other components (requires iOS 8+).

NSInteger weekday = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] component:NSCalendarUnitWeekday 
                                                   fromDate:[NSDate date]];

(If you don't get a correct answer, check if you have mistyped NSCalendarUnitWeekday with other week-related components like NSCalendarUnitWeekdayOrdinal, etc.)

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Swift 3:

let weekday = Calendar.current.component(.weekday, from: Date())
// 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, etc.

How to get Day number of week from NSDate

It will fetch you the day number i.e. 2. The day number are always same for every week. (1-7).

As pointed by Vyachaslav Gerchicov, the weekday number starts from Sunday

i.e Sunday is 1, Monday is 2... Saturday is 7

//Assuming your calendar is initiated like this
NSCalendar *_calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

//Fetch the day number
NSInteger day = [_calendar component:NSCalendarUnitWeekday fromDate:date];

Explore NSCalendar for more details here

For Swift 5.x

let day = Calendar.current.component(.weekday, from: date)

Explore Calendar for more details here

Objective C - How can i get the weekday from NSDate?

Edit for Mac:

The format of the string has to be —YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ±HHMM according to the docs, all fields mandatory

Old answer (for iPhone and tested on simulator):

There is no (public) -initWithString: method in NSDate, and what you get returned is not what you expect.

Use a properly configured (you need to give the input format) NSDateFormatter and -dateFromString:.

How do I get the day of the week with Foundation?

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

outputs current day of week as a string in locale dependent on current regional settings.

To get just a week day number you must use NSCalendar class:

NSCalendar *gregorian = [[[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease];
NSDateComponents *comps = [gregorian components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
int weekday = [comps weekday];

How do I get weekday and/or name of month from a NSDate variable?

There is no need to manually convert to the Swedish words. iPhone will do it for you. Try this:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"yyyyMMdd";
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"20111010"];

// set swedish locale
dateFormatter.locale=[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"sv_SE"];

dateFormatter.dateFormat=@"MMMM";
NSString *monthString = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date] capitalizedString];
NSLog(@"month: %@", monthString);

dateFormatter.dateFormat=@"EEEE";
NSString *dayString = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date] capitalizedString];
NSLog(@"day: %@", dayString);

Output:

month: Oktober
day: Måndag

How can I check for a specific day of the week using NSDate in Swift?

This is how I would accomplish the task.

var CurrentDate = NSDate()
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.timeZone = NSTimeZone()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "ccc"

let Monday = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(CurrentDate)
let isMonday = "Mon"
if Monday == isMonday {
   print("It's Monday")
}
else {
   let otherDay = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(CurrentDate)
   print(otherDay)
}

Get Weekday from Date - Swift 3

Presumably you have a Date already?

let weekday = Calendar.current.component(.weekday, from: myDate)

Maybe you want the name of the weekday?

let f = DateFormatter()

f.weekdaySymbols[Calendar.current.component(.weekday, from: Date()) - 1]

The -1 is added at the end because Calendar.current.component(.weekday, from: Date()) returns values from 1-7 but weekdaySymbols expects array indices.

Investigate the NSCalendar/DateComponents api or edit your question to be more specific if you need help with the DateComponents api.

Get first day of week and last day in objective-c

NSCalendar *cal = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian];

cal.firstWeekday = 2;// set first week day to Monday
// 1: Sunday, 2: Monday, ..., 7:Saturday

NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSDate *startOfTheWeek;
NSDate *endOfWeek;
NSTimeInterval interval;
[cal rangeOfUnit:NSCalendarUnitWeekOfYear
       startDate:&startOfTheWeek
        interval:&interval
         forDate:now];
//startOfTheWeek holds the beginning of the week

endOfWeek = [startOfTheWeek dateByAddingTimeInterval:interval - 1];
// endOfWeek now holds the last second of the last week day

[cal rangeOfUnit:NSCalendarUnitDay
       startDate:&endOfWeek
        interval:NULL
         forDate:endOfWeek];
// endOfWeek now holds the beginning of the last week day

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testing:

NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
formatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterShortStyle;
formatter.timeStyle = NSDateFormatterShortStyle;

NSLog(@"start: %@", [formatter stringFromDate:startOfTheWeek]);
NSLog(@"end:   %@", [formatter stringFromDate:endOfWeek]);

prints

start: 12.10.15, 00:00
end:   18.10.15, 00:00

So Monday is the beginning of the week

if I set

cal.firstWeekday = 1;

it will print

start: 11.10.15, 00:00
end:   17.10.15, 00:00

Sunday is the first day of the week

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