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PONSDate confusion dateFromString format
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copied!<pre><code>//Grab current day from sys date all I am interested in is the day i.e 01 - 31 days of month NSDateFormatter *dayFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [dayFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd"]; NSString *dayString = [dayFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]; </code></pre> <p>Later on in my code i then want to convert this string dayString to NSDate like below but dayFromString however the format is not just day the log is 2000-01-16 00:00:00 +0000 all i want is the 16</p> <pre><code>NSDate *dayFromString = [dayFormatter dateFromString:dayString]; NSLog(@"Day from string %@", dayFromString); </code></pre> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>Maybe this explains why I need an NSDate object for dayFromString</p> <pre><code>//sepDates is a JSON array with comma separated dates i.e 13, 27, 29 of which I split it indexes so 13 is at index 0 27 at 1 and 29 at 2. May string is the string that holds the above dates sepDates = [mayString componentsSeparatedByString:@","]; //Day string is todays date i.e 16 (16th) NSDate *dayFromString = [dayFormatter dateFromString:dayString]; NSLog(@"Day from string %@", dayFromString); double min = [dayFromString timeIntervalSinceDate:[sepDates objectAtIndex:0]]; NSLog(@"Min %f", min); //I then want to calculate which of the dates in the sepDates array at index is closest to todays current day 16 int minIndex = 0; for (int d = 1; d < [sepDates count]; ++d) { double currentmin = [dayFromString timeIntervalSinceDate:[sepDates objectAtIndex:d]]; if (currentmin < min) { min = currentmin; minIndex = d; NSLog(@"minIndex = %d", minIndex); } } </code></pre>

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