NSDate+Easy
Working with dates the right way
This library is inspired by the good Carbon dates library. It helps working with dates in a really easy way.
Installation
Copy the category files to your project or just
pod 'EasyDate'
Examples
The library mainly works with UTC dates but you can pass the timezone in almost all methods
Creating
NSDate *now = NSDate.now;
NSDate *today = NSDate.today;
NSDate *yesterday = NSDate.yesterday;
NSDate *tomorrow = NSDate.tomorrow;
Available methods:
now today tomorrow yesterday weekStart lastWeek nextWeek monthStart lastMonth nextMonth
If you need to work with timezones you can pass the timezone or device to use the device timezone
So if you are in UTC +2 today:@"device" will be yesterday at 22:00
NSDate *today = [NSDate today:@"device"];
You can also give a date to those name constructors
[NSDate parse:@"2016-08-18"].weekStart;
You can also parse dates:
NSDate* parsed = [NSDate parse:@"2016-08-14 04:03:01"];
NSDate* parsedTimezoned = [NSDate parse:@"2016-08-14 04:03:01" timezone:@"Europe/Paris"];
NSDate* parsedTimezoned2 = [NSDate parse:@"2016-08-14 04:03:01" timezone:@"device"];
if you have a NSString you can use the NSString+EasyDate category to do so:
NSDate* date = stringDate.toDate;
NSDate* date = [stringDate toDate:@"device"];
To string
It comes with a handful to string methods
date.toDateTimeString; // 2016-08-14 04:03:01
date.toDateString; // 2016-08-14
date.toDeviceTimezoneString // 2016-08-14 06:03:01
Datetools
This pod also installs the DateTools pod which makes working with dates quite easy as well, however this library has some convenience methods to shorten the calls and make code more readable