NSDate between two given NSDates

Question

I am interested in creating a method to find if the current date falls between certain times on any given day. It is for a scheduling program, so I want to find what event i

Answer 1

This isn't perfect, but you could use [NSDate compare:] to check your date against both boundaries:

NSDate *firstDate = ...
NSDate *secondDate = ...

NSDate *myDate = [NSDate date];

switch ([myDate compare:firstDate]) {
    case NSOrderedAscending:
        NSLog(@"myDate is older");
        // do something
        break;
    case NSOrderedSame:
        NSLog(@"myDate is the same as firstDate");
        // do something
        break;
    case NSOrderedDescending:
        NSLog(@"myDate is more recent");
        // do something
        break;
}

switch ([myDate compare:secondDate]) {
    case NSOrderedAscending:
        NSLog(@"myDate is older");
        // do something
        break;
    case NSOrderedSame:
        NSLog(@"myDate is the same as secondDate");
        // do something
        break;
    case NSOrderedDescending:
        NSLog(@"myDate is more recent");
        // do something
        break;
}

Or more briefly:

BOOL between = NO;

if (([myDate compare:firstDate] == NSOrderedDescending) &&
    ([myDate compare:secondDate] == NSOrderedAscending)) {

    between = YES;
}

I'm sure there's a better way to do complex date comparison, but this should work.