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Re: NSCalendar/NSDate - generating all months/days in a year [SOLVED]
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Re: NSCalendar/NSDate - generating all months/days in a year [SOLVED]


  • Subject: Re: NSCalendar/NSDate - generating all months/days in a year [SOLVED]
  • From: mmalc Crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:34:44 -0800


On Dec 22, 2008, at 8:47 AM, mmalc Crawford wrote:

There shouldn't be any need, though, to "add a month" for each iteration, just start a new month with a date components object with a new month number.

This could be made a little more efficient (and if you're not using garbage collection, needs suitable memory management), but for the sake of explicitness you could do something like the following.

mmalc


NSInteger specifiedYear = 2009;

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE d MMMM y"];

NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
dateFormatter.locale = locale;

NSCalendar *calendar = [locale objectForKey:NSLocaleCalendar];

NSDateComponents *yearStartComponents = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
[yearStartComponents setDay:1];
[yearStartComponents setMonth:1];
[yearStartComponents setYear:specifiedYear];

NSDate *yearStartDate = [calendar dateFromComponents:yearStartComponents];

NSRange monthsRange = [calendar rangeOfUnit:NSMonthCalendarUnit inUnit:NSYearCalendarUnit forDate:yearStartDate];
NSUInteger months = monthsRange.length;
NSUInteger month;


for (month = 1; month <= months; month++) {

NSDateComponents *monthStartComponents = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
[monthStartComponents setDay:1];
[monthStartComponents setMonth:month];
[monthStartComponents setYear:specifiedYear];


NSDate *monthStartDate = [calendar dateFromComponents:monthStartComponents];

NSRange daysRange = [calendar rangeOfUnit:NSDayCalendarUnit inUnit:NSMonthCalendarUnit forDate:monthStartDate];
NSUInteger days = daysRange.length;
NSUInteger day;


    for (day = 1; day <= days; day++) {

NSDateComponents *dayComponents = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
[dayComponents setDay:day];
[dayComponents setMonth:month];
[dayComponents setYear:specifiedYear];


        NSDate *day = [calendar dateFromComponents:dayComponents];
        NSString *dayString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:day];
        NSLog(@"dayString: %@", dayString);

    }
}

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