iOS Day of the year

[chainprayer]

I'm trying to assign the day of the year to a variable. For example, Jan 1 would be 1 and Dec 31 would be 365. Is there a simple way to do this?


Still working on those basic stumbling blocks as I learn obj c programming

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[robbieduncan]

One way would be to create two NSDate objects, one being right now, the other the last day of the prior year at 23:59:59 and compare them with timeIntervalSinceDate: then divide that number of seconds down to find the number of days.

Another (potentially simpler way) would be to use NSDateFormatter with a custom format string (@"DDD").

Both of these are pretty simple to find in the documentation: I suggest you make yourself familiar with it.