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

- (void) getMonthFromDate:(NSString *) stringDate
{
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"];
    NSDate *date = [dateFormat dateFromString:stringDate];
    NSCalendar* calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    NSDateComponents* components = [calendar components:NSCalendarUnitYear|NSCalendarUnitMonth|NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:date]; // Get necessary date components

    NSLog(@"%lu", [components day]);
    NSLog(@"%lu %@",[components day],[[dateFormat monthSymbols] objectAtIndex:[components month]]);

}