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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Adapting Data for Display Formatting Dates with NSDateFormatter

Posted by Sanghmitra Banerjee
Sanghmitra Banerjee
Courses Plus Student 1,535 Points

Using NSDate create a date object that is 10 days from today and call it 'futureDate'.

NSTimeInterval secondsPerDay = 60 * 60 * 24 *10; NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; NSDate *today = [NSDate date]; NSDate *futureDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:secondsPerDay];

Please correct me if I am wrong!

1 Answer

Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points
Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points

Hi Sanghmitra Banerjee ,

You might want to use an additional NSTimeInterval variable for that - just for the challenge to pass.

So the complete solution for Challenge task 2 of 4 "Using NSDate create a date object that is 10 days from today and call it 'futureDate'." e.g. could be like:

NSTimeInterval secondsPerDay = 60 * 60 * 24;
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
// Add your code below
NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSTimeInterval future = (60 * 60 * 24) * 10;
NSDate *futureDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:future];
Daniel Templin
Daniel Templin
5,293 Points
Daniel Templin
Daniel Templin
5,293 Points

And what I went with, which still cut down on variables being created, was to create "futureDate" with the calculations hinging off of the "secondsPerDay". It looked a little like:

NSTimeInterval *futureDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:secondsPerDay*10];

Slightly less clutter for the same calculations.