How do I get weekday and/or name of month from a NSDate variable?

Question

Alright. The problem we\'re having is that we have NSStrings filled with dates in the format of yyyyMMdd and what we want to do is to get the current weekday and name of mon

Answer 1

There is no need to manually convert to the Swedish words. iPhone will do it for you. Try this:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"yyyyMMdd";
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:@"20111010"];

// set swedish locale
dateFormatter.locale=[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"sv_SE"];

dateFormatter.dateFormat=@"MMMM";
NSString *monthString = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date] capitalizedString];
NSLog(@"month: %@", monthString);

dateFormatter.dateFormat=@"EEEE";
NSString *dayString = [[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date] capitalizedString];
NSLog(@"day: %@", dayString);

Output:

month: Oktober
day: Måndag