dynamically create date for previous sunday at 12:00 AM - ios

Question

I'm struggling to figure out how to dynamically create a date object for the most previous sunday at 12:00 AM
I was thinking I could get today's date and then subtract the current day of the week + 1 at which point I could just subtract the time of the day do get down to 12AM.
so far I have the current day of the week:
NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDateComponents *comps = [gregorian components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
int weekday = [comps weekday];
at which point I can get today's date and subtract the difference of weekday * seconds in a day. However, how can I get today's time in seconds ??

Answer 1

No need to manually calculate seconds (which is dangerous anyway because of daylight saving etc.). The following should do exactly what you want:
NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar *calendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
[calendar setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:#"en-US"]]; // force US locale, because other countries (e.g. the rest of the world) might use different weekday numbering
NSDateComponents *nowComponents = [calendar components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSWeekCalendarUnit | NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit fromDate:today];
[nowComponents setWeekday:1]; //Sunday
[nowComponents setHour:0]; // 12:00 AM = midnight (12:00 PM would be 12)
[nowComponents setMinute:0];
[nowComponents setSecond:0];
NSDate *previousSunday = [calendar dateFromComponents:nowComponents];

Answer 2

I'll leave worrying about transitions between daylight savings time to you:
NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc]initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSLog(#"date %#", date);
NSDateComponents *componentsToday = [gregorian components:NSWeekdayCalendarUnit fromDate:date]; // NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit |
NSInteger days = componentsToday.weekday - 1;
NSLog(#"Days=%d", days);
NSDate *lastSunday = [date dateByAddingTimeInterval:-days*60*60*24];
NSLog(#"lastSunday %#", lastSunday);
NSDateComponents *componentsSunday = [gregorian components:NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:lastSunday];
[componentsSunday setHour:0];
[componentsSunday setMinute:0];
[componentsSunday setSecond:0];
NSDate *targetDate = [gregorian dateFromComponents:componentsSunday];
NSLog(#"TargetDate %#", targetDate);

Answer 3

#AndreasLey solution in Swift 2.0:
func getLastSunday() -> NSDate?
{
let today = NSDate();
let calendar : NSCalendar! = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)
calendar.locale = NSLocale(localeIdentifier: "en-US") // force US locale, because other countries (e.g. the rest of the world) might use different weekday numbering
let flags : NSCalendarUnit = [.Year , .Month, .Weekday, .WeekOfMonth, .Minute , .Second]
let nowComponents = calendar.components(flags, fromDate: today)
nowComponents.weekday = 1 //Sunday
nowComponents.hour = 0 // 12:00 AM = midnight (12:00 PM would be 12)
nowComponents.minute = 0
nowComponents.second = 0;
let previousSunday = calendar.dateFromComponents(nowComponents);
return previousSunday
}

Answer 4

This code is setting 12:00 am in your selected date from UIDatePicker.
NSDate *oldDateSelected = datePicker.date;
unsigned unitFlags = NSCalendarUnitYear | NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitDay;
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *comps = [calendar components:unitFlags fromDate:oldDateSelected];
comps.hour = 00;
comps.minute = 00;
comps.second = 44;
NSDate *newDate = [calendar dateFromComponents:comps];
return newDate;