Compare NSDate for Today or Yesterday

Question

Well I guess this has been asked a thousand times, but for some reason the answeres dont really work or had other problems,....

Anyway here is what I have \"working\

Answer 1

The easiest way to do it is to just compare the description of the dates:

// Your dates:
NSDate * today = [NSDate date];
NSDate * yesterday = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:-86400]; //86400 is the seconds in a day
NSDate * refDate; // your reference date

// 10 first characters of description is the calendar date:
NSString * todayString = [[today description] substringToIndex:10];
NSString * yesterdayString = [[yesterday description] substringToIndex:10];
NSString * refDateString = [[refDate description] substringToIndex:10];

if ([refDateString isEqualToString:todayString]) 
{
    cell.title.text =  @"Today";
} else if ([refDateString isEqualToString:yesterdayString]) 
{
    cell.title.text =  @"Yesterday";
} else 
{
    cell.title.text =  refDateString;
}

If you want to change the format of the date string you could use descriptionWithLocale: instead.