Number of day of current year in iOS

Question

I want to find number of day today is in current year. e.g, if today is Mar15, 2012 I should get 75(31 + 29 + 15). Or we can simply say that number of days between today and

Answer 1

Using NSDateComponents you can can gather the NSDayCalendarUnit component which should indicate the current day of the year.

Something along the lines of the following should suit your needs:

//create calendar
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

//set calendar time zone
[calendar setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:@"UTC"]];

//gather date components
NSDateComponents *components = [calendar components:NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];

//gather time components
NSInteger day = [components day];