Question

I have an NSDate object and must create a label that indicates the day of the week in a short 3-char style like ‘Mon’, ‘Tue’, ‘Wed’, … and localized to the short representation in any language.

The date formatter EEE has 3 chars but how does that translate to languages like Chinese which probably only have one character?

Answer 1

NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"EEE"];
NSString *strDate = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
[formatter release];
//Commented out the following line as weekday can be of one letter (requirement changed)
//strDate = [strDate substringToIndex:3];   //This way Monday = Mon, Tuesday = Tue