How can I initialize a date to NSdate?

Question

I want to give, for example, 12/11/2005 in the format of mm/dd/yyyy. Can I initialize 12/11/2005 to NSDate directly? Any

Answer 1

Another solution could be the use of NSCalendar and NSDateComponents, since +dateWithNaturalLanguageString: is deprecated.

For example you want a NSDate initialised to 15th of August 2001. This is the code that will work for you:

NSCalendar *g = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian];

NSDateComponents *comps = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
comps.year = 2001;
comps.month = 8;
comps.day = 15;

NSDate *myDate = [g dateFromComponents:comps];

or another way is:

let earliestDate = calendar.dateWithEra(1, year: 2012, month: 1, day: 1, hour: 0, minute: 0, second: 0, nanosecond: 0)

to set the earliestDate NSDate to 01/01/2012