How to get NSDate day, month and year in integer format?

Question

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

Answer 1

To those who just copy and paste directly from the web, like me, this is a small update for iOS 8

NSCalendar* calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents* components = [calendar components:NSCalendarUnitYear|NSCalendarUnitMonth|NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:[NSDate date]];
[components day]; //Day
[components month];//Month
[components year];//Year

The difference is NSCalendarUnitYear|NSCalendarUnitMonth|NSCalendarUnitDay NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit | NSYearCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayCalendarUnit have been deprecated