UIPickerView With Custom Dates - ios

Question

I cannot use a UIDatePicker. I just want to throw that out at the very beginning before all the commenters tell me to just use a UIDatePicker. I want to have a Picker Wheel that shows all the day of the year, leading up to today, and display it as Day: 1/Jan 1, Day: 2/Jan 2 and so on. Here is what I have so far, which detects what day 'number' of the year it is, and populates the PickerWheel with all the dates leading up to today:
NSCalendar *currentCalendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSInteger dc = [currentCalendar ordinalityOfUnit:NSDayCalendarUnit
inUnit:NSYearCalendarUnit
forDate:today];
options = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
for (int index = 1; index <= dc; index++)
{
NSString *pickerItemTitle = [NSString stringWithFormat: #"Day: %d", index];
[options addObject: pickerItemTitle];
}
What can I do to make it also match up the NSInteger with the date, and have that be part of the pickerItemTitle as well?

Answer 1

Got it figured out. Added some code to form a date based off integer of day into the loop. Now, the viewWillAppear method that sets the array for the uipickerview looks like this:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
NSCalendar *currentCalendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSInteger dc = [currentCalendar ordinalityOfUnit:NSDayCalendarUnit
inUnit:NSYearCalendarUnit
forDate:today];
options = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
for (int index = 1; index <= dc; index++)
{
NSDateComponents *components = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
[components setDay:index];
NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc]
initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDate *date = [gregorian dateFromComponents:components];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];
[formatter setDateFormat:#"MMM dd"];
NSString *articleDateString = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
NSString *pickerItemTitle = [NSString stringWithFormat: #"Day: %d/%#", index, articleDateString];
[options addObject: pickerItemTitle];
}
[super viewWillAppear:YES];
}