Date Issue

Hi

I have attempted this is many ways but failed consistently, hopefully you guys can help me achieve the what i want to do.

I am making an iPad app, I will have five tables in a single view and each table will have a date as a header/title in this format, e.g. Monday 20

These five tables will be monday to friday. This is the bit I cant do. I want to work out the current date and then highlight the table which is today, obviously changes everyday.

So for example, lets say today is Thursday 9th. Thursday table is highlighted and then is automatically sets the date of the other tables around thursday.

Think of a school timetable/planner/diary. Monday to friday, each labelled with their dates.

I hope this makes sense, if not let me know and I will try and visually represent this.

 

Well I have been using NSDate and NSDateFormatter like below, but no success:

Code:

NSDateFormatter *format = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
	[format setDateFormat:@"EEEE dd"];
	NSDate *now = [[NSDate alloc] init];
	NSString *dateString = [format stringFromDate:now];

 

Of course, thats fine, it outputs the current date, but if I have a screen like attached. Now as far as I have gotten is get todays date showing.

On that screen, lets says its a Thursday, I want the thursday table to be highlighted and then the dates on the other tables are set, so if thursday is the 21st, make friday 22 and wednesday 20 etc

Hope you understand.

 

Well I have pre named each table as they will always be fixed monday to friday, then checking that against the day I get from the NSDate.

Also, maybe what your talking about, from that used initWithTimeIntervalSinceNow.

Anyway I haven't succeeded, if it seems I should have, please let me know why, if not, how else could I achieve this? Thanks.

 

Nothing is highlighted if its saturday or sunday. This is because they aren't needed.

I will post back tomorrow with more detail of what i have tried, late here in the UK, thanks for the attempted help so far.

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3538941/use-of-nsdate-to-get-dates

What about this method? Would this work? Im not quite understanding it though.

 

Who ever said I didn't?! I did, and I know what you say is true, and I do read about it as thoroughly as I can, but when you simply don't understand where to go next, you ask for help, what I have done here.

I will do, that makes sense.