How to get first date of month? - ios

Question

I am working on get start and end date from today’s date.
I am getting start and end date of current month by using
formula given by Martin R
Get first and last day of month
It is working perfectly.
My issue is how to put my custom value in this line
let components1 = calendar.components([.Year, .Month], fromDate: date)
Can I replace my custom month value to this code?
My requirement is:
I have one tableView for months like January, etc.
When I will click TableView I am getting current month according to tableview.
Suppose I click on January, I will get value 1.
So how to get start and end date of month using my custom month value?
My Code
let date = NSDate()
let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MM yyyy"
//To Get Start Date of Month
let components1 = calendar.components([.Year,.Day], fromDate: date)
components1.month = 3
let startOfMonth = calendar.dateFromComponents(components1)!
txtStartDate.text = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(startOfMonth)

Answer 1

try this code:
let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let date = "January 2016" // custom value
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MMMM yyyy"
let components = calendar.components([.Year, .Month, .Day], fromDate: dateFormatter.dateFromString(date)!)
let startOfMonth = calendar.dateFromComponents(components)!
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM"
print(dateFormatter.stringFromDate(startOfMonth))
//NSLog("%# : %#", startOfMonth,dateFormatter.stringFromDate(startOfMonth));
Output:
01

Answer 2

I am answering my own question
temp number is month number like if January it will considered as 1.
plz go through this solution to get start and end date from custom values
thanks #Martin R
let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "dd MM yyyy"
//To Get Start Date of Month
let components1 = calendar.components([.Year], fromDate: NSDate())
components1.month = Int(tempNumber!)!
let startOfMonth = calendar.dateFromComponents(components1)!
txtStartDate.text = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(startOfMonth)
//To Get End Date of Month
let comps2 = NSDateComponents()
comps2.month = 1
comps2.day = -1
let endOfMonth = calendar.dateByAddingComponents(comps2, toDate: startOfMonth, options: [])!
txtEndDate.text = dateFormatter.stringFromDate(endOfMonth)