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I'm trying to find if a date is Monday.

To do this I proceed this way :

#define kDateAndHourUnitsComponents NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar autoupdatingCurrentCalendar];

// for test and debug purpose
NSDateComponents* b = [calendar components:kDateAndHourUnitsComponents fromDate:retDate];
int a=[[calendar components:kDateAndHourUnitsComponents fromDate:theDate] weekday];
// -----------

if ([[calendar components:kDateAndHourUnitsComponents fromDate:theDate] weekday] == EKMonday) DoThis....

But this doesn't work... a and b does not contain anything useful (a equals 2147483647),

I also wonder what can be the use of [calendar components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:retDate] that is not useful anymore in that case...

I also found this that confirms the process : How to check what day of the week it is (i.e. Tues, Fri?) and compare two NSDates?

What did I miss ?

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Oliver
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    It's always a good idea to have macro definitions in parenthesis. Like this: `#define kDateAndHourUnitsComponents (NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit)`. Otherwise it's very easy to introduce some very nasty hard to find problems. – detunized Jan 23 '11 at 00:38
  • OK, but these are always used this way without parenthesis – Oliver Jan 23 '11 at 00:41

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Here ya go, this works and returns days via ints: 7 = Sat, 1 = Sun, 2 = Mon...

OBJECTIVE C

NSDate* curDate = [NSDate date];
int dayInt = [[[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components: NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate: curDate] weekday];

SWIFT 4.2

Build up the date you want to check what day of the week it is

let dateComponents = DateComponents(
    year: 2019,
    month: 2 /*FEB*/,
    day: 23 /*23rd day of that month */
)

get the current calendar.

let cal = Calendar.current

now use the calendar to check if the build up date is a valid date

guard let date = cal.date(from: dateComponents ) else {
    // The date you build up wasn't a valid day on the calendar
    return
}

//Now that your date is validated, get the day of the week

let weekdayIndex = cal.component(.weekday, from: date)

You'll notice that the 'weekdayIndex' is an integer. If you want to make it a string, you can do something like this:

if let weekdayName = DateFormatter().weekdaySymbols?[ weekdayIndex - 1] {
    print("The weekday for your date is :: \(weekdayName)")
}

Instead of building your own date, you are of course allowed to use let date = Date() instead to get what the current day of the week is

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  • sorry but this just raises warnings at compile time and crashes the app at runtime, even deleting whitespaces after : – Oliver Jan 23 '11 at 00:40
  • Sorry, I tried to remember that and screwed up my answer. Its fixed now, and I just put it in a project and verified it. – Michael Dillon Jan 23 '11 at 00:53
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    One thing I'm wondering: Is this dependent on the user's "Week Starts On" setting for the Calendar app? – Andrew Mar 29 '14 at 14:05