macOS NSCalendarDate Month to Int

[justmyself]

I'm looking to get the current month in an integer. ie 0 - 11. I've spend quite bit of time on apples dev site for NSCalendarDate, but to no avail. Much frustration. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanx

 

[Catfish_Man]

This is likely not the best way, but here's an example of something related.

NSCalender *cal = [NSCalendar autoupdatingCurrentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *comps = [cal components: NSMonthCalendarUnit fromDate:[NSDate date]];
NSInteger month = [comps month];

 

[justmyself]

Yeeps, so overwhelming. I tried your example but for some reason I got a several errors. I'm hoping to find something rather strait forward.

ie.

int myVariable;

myVariable = NSCalendarDate etc... etc...


Obviously it won't be that simple, but as someone new to Objective C and Cocoa I need something quite basic. Is it just me or does Objective C and Cocoa have a steep learning curve? I've done C++, Perl, as well as JavaScript and Unix Scripting with no problems. This however just seems so twisted.

 

[cazlar]

Is it not as simple as:

NSCalendarDate *now = [NSCalendarDate calendarDate];
int i = [now monthOfYear];

??


BTW, That should give 1-12 I believe, not 0-11


Though the above NSDateComponents code is the way to do it on iPhone, since for some reason it lacks NSCalendarDate (grrr).

 

[Catfish_Man]

I believe you're correct cazlar. It was 2AM when I posted my code and I didn't feel like checking for other ways to do it