Cocoa-Touch: How do I see if two NSDates are in the same day?

Question

I need to know if two NSDate instances are both from the same day.

Is there an easier/better way to do it than getting the NSDateComponents and comparing day/month/y

Answer 1

The following will test whether two dates represent the same day in a given era (which is sufficient in many cases):

- (BOOL)isDate:(NSDate *)date1 sameDayAsDate:(NSDate *)date2 {
    NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    int diff = [calendar ordinalityOfUnit:NSDayCalendarUnit 
                                   inUnit:NSEraCalendarUnit 
                                  forDate:date1] -
               [calendar ordinalityOfUnit:NSDayCalendarUnit 
                                   inUnit:NSEraCalendarUnit 
                                  forDate:date2];
    return 0 == diff;
}