Introduction

NVDate is library for handling NSDate manipulation in iOS Development.

Features

NVDate have many features that help to solve your problem.

• Capable to do lot of date manipulation task
• User friendly naming convention
• Chainable functions
• Easy to use
• Open Source !

Installation

Manually

Download the source, then follow these steps:

• Objective-C

  Copy both NVDate.h and NVDate.m files into your project

  #import "NVDate.h"

• Swift

  Copy NVDate.Swift

CocoaPods

Installing NVDate using CocoaPods is easier. Simply add the following line to your Podfile :

pod 'NVDate'

Simple Example

Full date of today

Objective-C

NVDate *date = [[NVDate alloc] initUsingToday];
 
NSLog(@"today is : %@", [date stringValue]);
// today is : Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 4:56:35 PM Western Indonesia Time

Swift

let date = NVDate(isUsingToday: true)

NSLog("today is : %@", date.stringValue());
// today is : Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 4:56:35 PM Western Indonesia Time

Last day of next 2 months

Objective-C

NVDate *date = [[NVDate alloc] initUsingToday];
[date nextMonths:2];
[date lastDayOfMonth];

NSLog(@"next 2 months from today is : %@", [date stringValueWithFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"]);
// next 2 months from today is : 30-04-2014

Swift

var date = NVDate(isUsingToday: true)
date.nextMonths(2);
date.lastDayOfMonth(2);

NSLog("next 2 months from today is : %@", date.stringValue(dateFormat: "dd-MM-yyyy"));
// next 2 months from today is : 30-04-2014

Second week of 2 months ago

Objective-C

NVDate *date = [[[[[NVDate alloc] initUsingToday] previousMonths:2] firstDayOfMonth] nextWeek];
date.dateFormatUsingString = @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";

NSLog(@"second week of 2 months ago is : %@", [date stringValue]);
// second week of 2 months ago is : 2013-12-08 17:03:36

Swift

var date = NVDate(isUsingToday: true).previousMonths(2).firstDayOfMonth().nextWeek()
date.dateFormatUsingString = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";

NSLog("second week of 2 months ago is : %@", date.stringValue());
// second week of 2 months ago is : 2013-12-08 17:03:36

Detect if yesterday is friday

Objective-C

BOOL isFriday = [[[[NVDate alloc] initUsingToday] previousDay] isCurrentDayName:NVDayUnitFriday];

NSLog(@"is yesterday was friday ? %@", isFriday ? @"yes" : @"no");
// is yesterday was friday ? no

Swift

Bool isFriday = NVDate(isUsingToday: true).previousDay().isCurrentDayName(.Friday)

NSLog("is yesterday was friday ? %@", isFriday ? "yes" : "no");
// is yesterday was friday ? no

Dot syntax

Objective-C

NVDate *nvDate = [[NVDate alloc] initUsingToday];
NSString someday = nvDate.previousDay.previousWeek.nextDay.stringValue;

NSLog(@"someday %@", someday);
// someday 2013-12-08 17:03:36

Swift

var nvDate = NVDate(isUsingToday: true);
String someday = nvDate.previousDay().previousWeek().nextDay().stringValue();

NSLog(@"someday %@", someday);
// someday 2013-12-08 17:03:36

Documentation

https://github.com/novalagung/NVDate/wiki/API-Reference

Contribution

Feel free to add contribution to this project by fork -> pull request

License

http://novalagung.mit-license.org/