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Re: Getting relative day-of-week name?
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Re: Getting relative day-of-week name?


  • Subject: Re: Getting relative day-of-week name?
  • From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:38:55 -0800

On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:22:56, mmalc Crawford wrote:

>
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:04 pm, Rick Mann wrote:
>
>> I'd like to take an NSDate and get a relative day-of-week name. For example, if today is 2/24, and the NSDate is some time on 2/23, it would be "Yesterday." If the NSDate were 2/22, it would be "Monday."
>>
>> Is there an existing format specifier for this (fully localized, etc)? Or must I roll my own for this?
>>
>
> NSDateFormatter > setDoesRelativeDateFormatting:
> Specifies whether the receiver uses phrases such as “today” and “tomorrow” for the date component.
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDateFormatter_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSDateFormatter/setDoesRelativeDateFormatting:>

Sweet, thanks! I totally did not see that.

Oh, wait. Sorry, I should've specified iPhone OS. Doesn't seem to do that on iPhone OS.

Thanks, anyway.

--
Rick

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