I want to get the day, month and year components of NSDate in integer form i.e. if the date is 1/2/1988 then I should get 1, 2 and 1988 separately as an integer
Yes by the use of NSCalendar, though, i think this will make your work.
NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSDayCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
NSInteger day = [components day];
NSInteger month = [components month];
NSInteger year = [components year];