Current Week Start and End Date

Question

I want to get the current week start and end date and I also want to use the previous week start and end date and next week of the start and end date in current month.

Answer 1

First find the current date...

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDateComponents *weekdayComponents     = [gregorian components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit fromDate:today];

Calcuate number of days to substract from today, in order to get the first day of the week. In this case, the first day of the week is monday. This is represented by first subtracting 0 with the weekday integer followed by adding 2 to the setDay.

Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, Tuesday = 3, Wednesday = 4, Thursday = 5, Friday = 6 and Saturday = 7. By adding more to this integers, you will go into the next week.

NSDateComponents *componentsToSubtract  = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
[componentsToSubtract setDay: (0 - [weekdayComponents weekday]) + 2];   
[componentsToSubtract setHour: 0 - [weekdayComponents hour]];
[componentsToSubtract setMinute: 0 - [weekdayComponents minute]];
[componentsToSubtract setSecond: 0 - [weekdayComponents second]];

Create date for first day in week

NSDate *beginningOfWeek = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:componentsToSubtract toDate:today options:0];

By adding 6 to the date of the first day, we can get the last day, in our example Sunday.

NSDateComponents *componentsToAdd = [gregorian components:NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:beginningOfWeek];
[componentsToAdd setDay:6];
NSDate *endOfWeek = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:componentsToAdd toDate:beginningOfWeek options:0];

for next and previous ....

-(IBAction)Week_CalendarActionEvents:(id)sender{

    NSCalendar *gregorian = [[[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease];
    NSDateComponents *offsetComponents = [[[NSDateComponents alloc] init] autorelease];
    NSDate *nextDate;

    if(sender==Week_prevBarBtn)  // Previous button events 
        [offsetComponents setDay:-7];
    else if(sender==Week_nextBarBtn) // next button events 
        [offsetComponents setDay:7];

    nextDate = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:offsetComponents toDate:selectedDate options:0];

    selectedDate = nextDate;
    [selectedDate retain];

    NSDateComponents *components = [gregorian components:NSWeekCalendarUnit fromDate:selectedDate];
    NSInteger week = [components week];
    NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setDateFormat:@"MMMM YYYY"];
    NSString *stringFromDate = [formatter stringFromDate:selectedDate];
    [formatter release];
    [Week_weekBarBtn setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@,Week %d",stringFromDate,week]];
}