Past events in EKCalendar

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I'm trying to get all the events from a determined EKCalendar, but if I call eventsMatching Predicate: with a predicate generated with predicateForEventsWithStartDate:endDate:calendars: and a past 'startDate' I get a null object. It's a bug? Or there is no way I can retrive the past events?

EDIT (NSData decalarations):

[[self eventStore] predicateForEventsWithStartDate:[NSDate distantPast] endDate:[NSDate distantFuture] calendars:syncedCalendars]

Maybe the timespan is too long. `distantPast` returns the 30th of December in Year 1 for me, and `distantFuture` returns 1st of January in the year 4001. Have your tried using a smaller timespan, like the last 3 months or so? — Björn Kaiser, Dec 05 '13 at 11:37
Using [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:0] also return null. The 'pastest' date I can use is 1/1/2010. I would know why — Nicolò Ciraci, Dec 05 '13 at 12:09
EDIT: Nope, even with 1/1/2010 return NULL. I will file a bug — Nicolò Ciraci, Dec 05 '13 at 19:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '13 at 11:37

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Try change your code to to:

    NSDate* futureDate =  [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:[[NSDate distantFuture] timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate]];
    [[self eventStore] predicateForEventsWithStartDate:[NSDate date] endDate: futureDate calendars:syncedCalendars]

Also make sure that your syncedCalendars is NSArray type.

answered Dec 05 '13 at 11:37

Greg

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It's not this problem, I want retrive the PAST events. Passing [NSDate date] will not retrive past events. – Nicolò Ciraci Dec 05 '13 at 11:42
I think there is some issue with [NSDate distantPast] call. I couldn't make it worked either. Maybe try subtract time interval from [NSDate date] to get date in the past. – Greg Dec 05 '13 at 12:07
Yep, what I've done :) But I can't further that 1/1/2010, even with 29/12/2009 I get a null array. – Nicolò Ciraci Dec 05 '13 at 12:12

Past events in EKCalendar

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