How to add one month to an NSDate?

Question

How To Add Month To NSDate Object?

NSDate *someDate = [NSDate Date] + 30Days.....;

Answer 1

Other answers work fine if your desired behaviour is adding a month and allowing for daylight savings time. This produces results such that:

01/03/2017 00:00 + 1 month -> 31/03/2017 23:00
01/10/2017 00:00 + 1 month -> 01/11/2017 01:00

However I wanted to ignore the hour lost or gained by DST, such that:

01/03/2017 00:00 + 1 month -> 01/04/2017 00:00
01/10/2017 00:00 + 1 month -> 01/11/2017 00:00

So I check if a DST boundary is passed, and if so either add or subtract an hour accordingly:

func offsetDaylightSavingsTime() -> Date {
        // daylightSavingTimeOffset is either + 1hr or + 0hr. To offset DST for a given date, we need to add an hour or subtract an hour
        // +1hr -> +1hr
        // +0hr -> -1hr
        // offset = (daylightSavingTimeOffset * 2) - 1 hour

        let daylightSavingsTimeOffset = TimeZone.current.daylightSavingTimeOffset(for: self)
        let oneHour = TimeInterval(3600)
        let offset = (daylightSavingsTimeOffset * 2) - oneHour
        return self.addingTimeInterval(offset)
    }

    func isBetweeen(date date1: Date, andDate date2: Date) -> Bool {
        return date1.compare(self).rawValue * self.compare(date2).rawValue >= 0
    }

    func offsetDaylightSavingsTimeIfNecessary(nextDate: Date) -> Date {
        if let nextDST = TimeZone.current.nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition(after: self) {
            if nextDST.isBetweeen(date: self, andDate: nextDate){
                let offsetDate = nextDate.offsetDaylightSavingsTime()
                let difference = offsetDate.timeIntervalSince(nextDate)
                return nextDate.addingTimeInterval(difference)
            }
        }

        return nextDate
    }

    func dateByAddingMonths(_ months: Int) -> Date? {
        if let dateWithMonthsAdded = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .month, value: months, to: self) {
            return self.offsetDaylightSavingsTimeIfNecessary(nextDate: dateWithMonthsAdded)
        }

        return self
    }

Test:

func testDateByAddingMonths() {

    let date1 = "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date2 = "2017-02-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date3 = "2017-03-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date4 = "2017-04-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date5 = "2017-05-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date6 = "2017-06-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date7 = "2017-07-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date8 = "2017-08-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date9 = "2017-09-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date10 = "2017-10-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date11 = "2017-11-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date12 = "2017-12-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date13 = "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    let date14 = "2018-02-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()

    var testDate = "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z".asDate()
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date1)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date2)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date3)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date4)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date5)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date6)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date7)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date8)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date9)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date10)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date11)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date12)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date13)

    testDate = testDate.dateByAddingMonths(1)!
    XCTAssertEqual(testDate, date14)
}

For completeness, the .asDate() method I'm using

extension String {

    static let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    func checkIsValidDate() -> Bool {
        return self.tryParseToDate() != nil
    }

    func tryParseToDate() -> Date? {
        String.dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"
        return String.dateFormatter.date(from: self)
    }

    func asDate() -> Date {
        return tryParseToDate()!
    }
}