Simple Question: NSDate

[mwyld]

Hi, still quite a newbie to iPhone developer aso bear with me.
All I'm trying to do is display today's month and day in a label on the nib

the connections to the nib labels are ok but what am I doing wrong here?

//NSDate *today = [NSDate date];
	NSDateComponents *comp = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
	NSInteger month = [comp month];
	NSInteger day = [comp day];
	
	NSString *monthTxt;
	
	if (month == 1) {
	    monthTxt = @"Jan";
	} else if (month == 2) {
		monthTxt = @"Feb";
	} else if (month == 3) {
		monthTxt = @"Mar";
	} else if (month == 4) {
		monthTxt = @"Apr";
	} else if (month == 5) {
		monthTxt = @"May";
	} else if (month == 6) {
		monthTxt = @"Jun";
	} else if (month == 7) {
		monthTxt = @"Jul";
	} else if (month == 8) {
		monthTxt = @"Aug";
	} else if (month == 9) {
		monthTxt = @"Sep";
	} else if (month == 10) {
		monthTxt = @"Oct";
	} else if (month == 11) {
		monthTxt = @"Nov";
	} else if (month == 12) {
		monthTxt = @"Dec";
	} else {
		monthTxt = @"Err";
	}
	
	[lblMonth setText:monthTxt];
	[lblDay setText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",day]];
	
	[monthTxt release];
	[comp release];

[baja_yu]

To be able to help, you need to tell us what happens when you run the code, does it give an error (which one and on which line), does it not work as you expect (what does it do and what did you expect it to do).

Also, I think you might be able to use the NSDateFormatter to give you the month name as a string.

[newDev]

You should use NSDateFormatter to display NSDate in a format you'd like.
Check the developer documentation.

Edit: baja_yu beat me to it.

also try this

	NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
	[dateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
	[dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
	
	NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
	
	NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_UK"];
	[dateFormatter setLocale:usLocale];
	
	NSLog(@"Date: %@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);

[mwyld]

thanks both for your help. newDev how would I extract just the month from this or just the day?

[newDev]

Sorry, didnt realize you only wanted the month and day
Try this instead,

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
	[dateFormatter setTimeStyle:NSDateFormatterNoStyle];
	[dateFormatter setDateStyle:NSDateFormatterMediumStyle];
		// read out the format string
	NSString *format = [dateFormatter dateFormat];
	format = [format stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"y" withString:@""];
	format = [format stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"," withString:@""];

	[dateFormatter setDateFormat:format];
	
	NSDate *date = [NSDate date];
	
	NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];
	[dateFormatter setLocale:usLocale];
	
	NSLog(@"Date: %@",[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]);