Question

I want to get the minimum and maximum date from a date picker, but minimum date should be “- 18” of the current date and the maximum date should be “- 100” of current date.

Suppose current year is 2018 then I want minimum date 2000 and maximum date 1918.

What I have done so far is :

NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components = [gregorian components:NSYearCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];

NSInteger year = [components year];

int mindt = year - 18;

int maxdt = year -100;

   // NSDate * MinDate = [components year] - 18;

   // NSDate * MaxDate =  [components year] - 100;

   // self.datePicker.minimumDate = MinDate;

   // self.datePicker.maximumDate = MaxDate;

but I cant get this integer to my date format..

Answer 1

Try this:

NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
NSDate *currentDate = [NSDate date];
NSDateComponents *comps = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
[comps setYear:-18];
NSDate *minDate = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:comps toDate:currentDate  options:0];
[comps setYear:-150];
NSDate *maxDate = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:comps toDate:currentDate  options:0];
[comps release];

self.datePicker.minimumDate = minDate;
self.datePicker.maximumDate = maxDate;

It may be easily translated to Swift 4.2:

    let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)

    let currentDate = Date()
    var components = DateComponents()
    components.calendar = calendar

    components.year = -18
    components.month = 12
    let maxDate = calendar.date(byAdding: components, to: currentDate)!

    components.year = -150
    let minDate = calendar.date(byAdding: components, to: currentDate)!

    picker.minimumDate = minDate
    picker.maximumDate = maxDate