Get first day in a month from NSCalendar

Question

I have this subset of a method that needs to get day one of the current month.

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];  // returns correctly 28 february 2013
NSCalend         


        

Answer 1

Easy way of getting to the 1st from a given date:

NSDate *first = [gregorian dateBySettingUnit:NSCalendarUnitDay value:1 ofDate:date options:0];