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

for iOS7 and earlier:

//this is now => need that for the current date
NSDate * now = [NSDate date];

NSCalendar *calendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
[calendar setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]];

NSDateComponents * components = [calendar components:( NSYearCalendarUnit|    NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit) fromDate: now];

[components setMinute:0];
[components setHour:0];
[components setSecond:0];

//this is Today's Midnight
NSDate *todaysMidnight = [calendar dateFromComponents: components];



//now timeIntervals since Midnight => in seconds
NSTimeInterval todayTimeInterval = [now timeIntervalSinceDate: todaysMidnight];

//now timeIntervals since OtherDate => in seconds
NSTimeInterval otherDateTimeInterval = [now timeIntervalSinceDate: otherDate];

if(otherDateTimeInterval > todayTimeInterval) //otherDate is not in today
{
    if((otherDateTimeInterval - todayTimeInterval) <= 86400) //86400 == a day total seconds
    {
        @"yesterday";
    }
    else
    {
        @"earlier";
    }
}
else
{
    @"today";
}


now = nil;
calendar = nil;
components = nil;
todaysMidnight = nil;

NSLog("Thank you :-)");