Question

I have a UISegmentedControl on my view using storyboard and the text is currently being set programatically using the following lines of code:

[segMonth setTitle:@"Month 1" forSegmentAtIndex:0];
[segMonth setTitle:@"Month 2" forSegmentAtIndex:1];

I also have a date function using this code which gets the number (1-12) of the current month:

// Date
    NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
    NSString *strDate = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",now];
    NSArray *arr = [strDate componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];
    NSString *str;
    str = [arr objectAtIndex:0];

    NSArray *arr_my = [str componentsSeparatedByString:@"-"];

    NSInteger month = [[arr_my objectAtIndex:1] intValue];
//End Date

I’m trying to name the first segment the current month ‘December’ and the second segment the next month ‘January’.

I have tried using the following code but it doesn’t seem to work:

[segMonth setTitle:@"%d" forSegmentAtIndex:0];
[segMonth setTitle:@"%d" forSegmentAtIndex:1];

Obviously that would also only give the number of the month, not the name..

Answer 1

I have seen your code, that contains a very hard way to get a month from NSDate I know, this may not be the answer. But I am just asking you to check this code to know the correct way to get the month or day or time or anything separated from NSDate.

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc]
                         initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components = [gregorian components:NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:today];
NSInteger currentMonth = [components month]; // this will give you the integer for the month number

[components setMonth:1];
NSDate *newDate = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:today options:0];
NSDateComponents *nextComponents = [gregorian components:NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:newDate];

UPDATED:

NSInteger nextMonth = [nextComponents month]; // this will give you the integer for the month number

and as @Prince said you can get the name of the month from NSDateFormatter. Anyway I repeat to make you understand.

NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSString *currentMonthName = [[df monthSymbols] objectAtIndex:(currentMonth-1)];
NSString *nextMonthName = [[df monthSymbols] objectAtIndex:(nextMonth-1)];

[segMonth setTitle:currentMonthName forSegmentAtIndex:0];
[segMonth setTitle:nextMonthName forSegmentAtIndex:1];