Question

I have a Button in my view.On tapping the Button you get a datepicker which defaults to today’s date, the user can then select the date they want to search for events.
The problem is, no matter what date I select, it always returns the current day and adds this to my TextField which i have placed inside mu Button.Can any one tell me where I am wrong.am setting the date picker programatically.

Below is my code hopefully someone can help me out!

//displaying date picker while clicking on button

 - (IBAction)startDateButtonAction:(id)sender
  {
     if ([popOverController isPopoverVisible]) {
    [popOverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
  }
    UIViewController* popoverContent = [[UIViewController alloc] init]; //ViewController
    UIView *popoverView1 = [[UIView alloc] init];   //view
    datePicker          =[[UIDatePicker alloc]init];//Date picker
    datePicker.frame    =CGRectMake(0,0,240, 150);
    datePicker.datePickerMode = UIDatePickerModeDate;
    [datePicker setMaximumDate:[[NSDate date] dateByAddingTimeInterval:24*60*60*-6]];
    [datePicker setMinimumDate:[DateFormatter getSubtractedDateForomCurrentDateWith:35]];
    datePicker.date     = [DateFormatter getDateFromString:startDateLabel.text];
    datePicker.selected = YES;
    [datePicker addTarget:self action:@selector(datePickerValue)       forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
    [popoverView1 addSubview:datePicker];
    popoverContent.view = popoverView1;
    popOverController = [[UIPopoverController alloc]    initWithContentViewController:popoverContent];
    [popOverController setPopoverContentSize:CGSizeMake(240, 150) animated:NO];
    [popOverController presentPopoverFromRect:startDateButton.frame inView:headerView   permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp animated:YES];
}

//action function while selecting any of the date from date picker

 - (void) datePickerValue
  {
     NSDateComponents *offsetComponents = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
     [offsetComponents setDay:-6]; 
     NSDate *labelStartDate = datePicker.date;
     startDate = [DateFormatter getOnlyDateComponentsFromDate:labelStartDate];
     NSDate *labelEndDate = [self addDayToDate:startDate Number:6];
     startDateLabel.text = [DateFormatter getDateStringddmmyyy:labelStartDate];
     endDateLabel.text   = [DateFormatter getDateStringddmmyyy:labelEndDate];
   }

[including the functions that am used here]

//used for getting date components
+(NSDate *) getOnlyDateComponentsFromDate:(NSDate *)date
{
unsigned int flags = NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit;
NSCalendar* calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents* components = [calendar components:flags fromDate:date];
NSDate* dateOnly = [calendar dateFromComponents:components];
return dateOnly;
}  


 - (NSDate *) addDayToDate:(NSDate *)date Number:(int) number
{
  NSDate *newDate = [date dateByAddingTimeInterval:60*60*24*number];
  return newDate;
}

Iam using ARC.
here datePicker.date gives me only the current date even though I select any other dates

Answer 1

I found out my mistake at last..The problem was with my code where i set the maximum and minimum value for the datePicker.removing the code for setting maximum and minimum value the code works fine..