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, copy both NVDate.h and NVDate.m files to your project, then import it.

#import "NVDate.h"

CocoaPods

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

pod 'NVDate'

Simple Example

Full date of today

NVDate *date = [[NVDate alloc] initUsingToday];
NSLog(@"today is : %@", [date stringValue]);

// today is : Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 4:56:35 PM Western Indonesia Time

Last day's date of next 2 months

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

Second week of 2 months ago

NVDate *date = 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

Detect if yesterday is friday

BOOL isFriday = [[[[NVDate alloc] initUsingToday] previousDay] isCurrentDayName:NVDayUnitFriday];
NSLog(@"is yesterday was friday ? %@", isFriday ? @"yes" : @"no");

// is yesterday was friday ? no

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/