How to find weekday from today's date using NSDate?

Question

I know that I can figure out today\'s date by [NSDate date]; but how would I find out today day of the week, like Saturday, Friday etc.

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Answer 1

If someone is interested in a Swift solution, then use:

import Foundation

let weekday = NSCalendar.current.component(.weekday, from: Date())
print(weekday) // => prints the weekday number 1-7 (Sunday through Saturday) 

See the demo.

Update: fixed to work in Swift 3