Question

I want to display count down timer. I have the start date and end date. I need to display the remaining time like

days : hours : minutes : seconds

How can I do this?

Answer 1

you can set coundown like my below code :-

 -(void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
 {
 timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval: 1.0 target:self selector:@selector(updateCountdown) userInfo:nil repeats: YES];
 }

AND

 -(void) updateCountdown 
 {

NSString *dateString = @"14-12-2012";
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];
NSDate *dateFromString = [[NSDate alloc] init];
// voila!
dateFromString = [dateFormatter dateFromString:dateString];


NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];



NSDateComponents *componentsHours = [calendar components:NSHourCalendarUnit fromDate:now];
NSDateComponents *componentMint = [calendar components:NSMinuteCalendarUnit fromDate:now];    
NSDateComponents *componentSec = [calendar components:NSSecondCalendarUnit fromDate:now];        


NSCalendar *gregorianCalendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDateComponents *componentsDaysDiff = [gregorianCalendar components:NSDayCalendarUnit
                                                            fromDate:now
                                                              toDate:dateFromString
                                                             options:0];



lblDaysSetting.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02d",componentsDaysDiff.day];
lblHouresSetting.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02d",(24-componentsHours.hour)];    
lblMinitSetting.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02d",(60-componentMint.minute)];  
lblSecSetting.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02d",(60-componentSec.second)];  



 }

now just set your logic

its code output as my project as bellow::-