Getting human readable relative times and dates from a unix timestamp?

Question

Starting with a unix timestamp like 1290529723, how would I (assuming gmt) get the information on whether it is:

• today (if so, what time)

• i

Answer 1

The NSDateFormatter class has what you need. It does do "today", "tomorrow" etc. via the doesRelativeDateFormatting method.

Hope that helps someone else who lands on here and doesn't want to use an external class or creates his own.