> On Feb 16, 2016, at 9:52 PM, Greg Parker <gpar...@apple.com> wrote: > > >> On Feb 16, 2016, at 6:34 PM, Eric Gorr <mail...@ericgorr.net> wrote: >> >> When setting up a repeating event in Apple’s Calendar application, there is >> a lot of flexibility. For example, I can specify that an event repeats every >> month on the 5th Saturday. Of course, not every month has a fifth saturday, >> so for that month there is no event. >> >> What I am wondering is if there is direct api support for doing these date >> calculations…can I supply a set of parameters to a function and ask what the >> next 5th saturday of the month is? > > You can use NSDateComponents and NSCalendar to perform this sort of > calculation. For example, assuming a Gregorian calendar, you can use an > NSDateComponents object with weekday=7 and weekdayOrdinal=5 to represent > "fifth Saturday", and use NSCalendar > enumerateDatesStartingAfterDate:matchingComponents:options:usingBlock: to > find "fifth Saturdays" after some starting date.
Is it possible to use NSDateComponents to specify the last Saturday of the month? I was hoping that it might be possible to do with by using -1 for the weekdayOrdinal, but this does not appear to work. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
