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

Swift Extension based on the best answers:

extension NSDate {
    func isToday() -> Bool {
        let cal = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
        if cal.respondsToSelector("isDateInToday:") {
            return cal.isDateInToday(self)
        }
        var components = cal.components((.CalendarUnitEra | .CalendarUnitYear | .CalendarUnitMonth | .CalendarUnitDay), fromDate:NSDate())
        let today = cal.dateFromComponents(components)!

        components = cal.components((.CalendarUnitEra | .CalendarUnitYear | .CalendarUnitMonth | .CalendarUnitDay), fromDate:self);
        let otherDate = cal.dateFromComponents(components)!
        return today.isEqualToDate(otherDate)
    }
}