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

This is updated version valid for iOS 8

NSCalendar* currentCalendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents* dateComponents = [currentCalendar components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
return [dateComponents weekday];