how to get NSDate of a specific next day and time

Question

I have some events for which I need to calculate NSDates. For example I'm trying to get the next Monday at 8:00 AM. So I tried some stuff but nothing works:

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let nextMonday = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateBySettingUnit(NSCalendarUnit.Weekday, value: 2, ofDate: startDate, options: NSCalendarOptions.MatchNextTime)
let nextMondayEight = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateBySettingUnit(NSCalendarUnit.Hour, value: 8, ofDate: nextMonday!, options: NSCalendarOptions.MatchNextTime)

I get:

2016-04-12 05:00:00 +0000

That's Tuesday at 8:00 (the time difference is my local time GMT -3).

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let unitFlags: NSCalendarUnit = [.Day, .Month, .Year]
let comp = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().components(unitFlags, fromDate: NSDate())
comp.timeZone = NSTimeZone.localTimeZone()
comp.weekday = 1
comp.hour = 8
comp.minute = 0
comp.second = 0
let compDate = NSCalendar.currentCalendar().dateFromComponents(comp)

print("time: \(compDate!)")

I get:

2016-04-11 05:00:00 +0000

That's today at 8:00 and not next Monday at 8:00.

Any suggestions? Thanks

I found a similar post that may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18148224/get-next-monday-date-in-ios — Pankaj, Apr 11 '16 at 09:15
For the first approach, you need to check whether the first day of `NSCalendar.currentCalendar()` is Monday or Sunday — zc246, Apr 11 '16 at 09:22

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '16 at 09:26

NSCalendar has a method nextDateAfterDate:matchingComponents:options for this kind of date math.

let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let components = NSDateComponents()
components.hour = 8 // 8:00
components.weekday = 2 // Monday in Gregorian Calendar

let nextMondayEightOClock = calendar.nextDateAfterDate(NSDate(), matchingComponents: components, options: .MatchStrictly)

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