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iOS

Posted by Jorge Alvarez
Jorge Alvarez
9,330 Points

Getting the day of the week IOS

My objective is to display certain information dependent upon what day of the week it is for example Sunday - Friday so really all I need to do is figure out how the computer can let me know on a daily basis what day it is.

 override func viewDidLoad() {

        let date = NSDate()
        let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
        let components = calendar.components(.CalendarUnitHour | .CalendarUnitMinute, fromDate: date)
        let hour = components.hour
        let minutes = components.minute

        let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.timeStyle = .ShortStyle
        dateFormatter.dateStyle = .MediumStyle
        var stringDate = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(date)

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

            let formatter = NSDateFormatter()
            formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
            if let todayDate = formatter.dateFromString(today) {
                let myCalendar = NSCalendar()
                let myComponents = myCalendar.components(.WeekdayCalendarUnit, fromDate: todayDate)
                let weekDay = myComponents.weekday
                return weekDay
            } else {
                return nil
            }
        }
        if let weekday = getDayOfWeek("2014-07-27") {
            println(weekday)
        } else {
            println("bad input")
        }
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }

and this just returns zero