How to determine if an NSDate is today?

Question

How to check if an NSDate belongs to today?

I used to check it using first 10 characters from [aDate description]. [[aDate descriptio

Answer 1

In macOS 10.9+ & iOS 8+, there's a method on NSCalendar/Calendar that does exactly this!

- (BOOL)isDateInToday:(NSDate *)date 

So you'd simply do

Objective-C:

BOOL today = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] isDateInToday:date];

Swift 3:

let today = Calendar.current.isDateInToday(date)