Question

I’m trying to generate an array of 30 days from the current date and put them into an array formatted correctly. I currently have a working generater to get 30 days from the current date and put it into an array but I don’t know how to use NSDate formatter for an array. I know how to use the formatter for a single item but how can I format all the dates in my array? The format that I would like is (Month Day). Here’s my code:

NSMutableArray* dates = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    int numberOfDays=30;
    NSDate *startDate=[NSDate date];
    NSDate *tempDate=[startDate copy];
    for (int i=0;i<numberOfDays;i++) {
        NSLog(@"%@",tempDate.description);
        tempDate=[tempDate dateByAddingTimeInterval:(60*60*24)];
        [dates addObject:tempDate.description];
    }

    NSLog(@"%@",dates);

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.

Answer 1

use like this,

NSMutableArray* dates = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    int numberOfDays=30;
    NSDate *startDate=[NSDate date];
    NSDate *tempDate=[startDate copy];
    for (int i=0;i<numberOfDays;i++) {
        NSLog(@"%@",tempDate.description);
        tempDate=[tempDate dateByAddingTimeInterval:(60*60*24)];
     NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormat setDateFormat:@"MM/dd"];
    NSString *dateString = [dateFormat stringFromDate:tempDate];
    tempDate=[dateFormat dateFromString:dateString];
    [dateFormat release];

        [dates addObject:tempDate.description];
    }

    NSLog(@"%@",dates);