I want to get today's date without time [closed] - ios

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Currently what I am doing is I am comparing some date say oldDate with today's date
NSDate *dt = [NSDate date];
NSComparisonResult result = [oldDate compare:dt];
if (result == NSOrderedAscending)
{
// do something
}
dt gives me today's date with time also. But I want just date and no time. How can I achieve it ?

Answer 1

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:#"dd/MM/YYYY"];
NSString *dateString=[dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];

Answer 2

To take care about timezones and everything you could do something like this:
- (NSInteger)day {
NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSDayCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:self];
return [components day];
}
- (NSInteger)month {
NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSDayCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:self];
return [components month];
}
- (NSInteger)year {
NSDateComponents *components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:self];
return [components year];
}
Of course you can put it all together in one function just remember to alter components accordingly.
Caveat:
If you want something to show to the user, use one of the other answers with NSDateFormatter.

Answer 3

You need to use a date formatter to correctly output the date and/or time for an NSDate object.
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterFullStyle];
[dateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
Setting the different NSDateFormatterStyle types will yield more or less information as required, i.e.: "Tuesday, 1st January 2013", or "01/02/2013".

Answer 4

Here you go:
NSDate *date = [NSDate Date];
NSDateFormatter *timeFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
timeFormatter.dateFormat = #"HH:mm:ss";
NSString *timeString = [timeFormatter stringFromDate:date];
Now the string timeString contains the current time in HH:mm:ss format, i.e. 11:26:59
Whoops Misread the question! this is for time only for date see other answers - might as well leave this here also.