iOS iOS - NSCalendar/NSDateComponents time zone issue?

[mdhansen5]

I've been using NSCalendar and NSDateComponents to return the difference (in days) between 2 dates. Here's the code I'm using to get that.

    NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
    calendar.timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0];

    NSDate *todayDate = [NSDate date];
    NSDateComponents *comps = [calendar components:(NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit) 
                                     fromDate:todayDate];
    [comps setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];

    NSDate *today = [calendar dateFromComponents:comps];

    NSDate *startDate = self.date;
    NSDate *endDate =  today;
    NSLog(@"startDate: %@",startDate);
    NSLog(@"endDate: %@",endDate);

    NSDateComponents *components = [calendar components:NSDayCalendarUnit
                                                fromDate:endDate
                                                  toDate:startDate
                                                 options:0];
    [components setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:0]];

    NSInteger days = [components day];

The weird part is that this works perfectly during the early part of the day, but once I reach around 6 or 7PM (I'm using Mountain Time, which is GMT -7 I think), it stops working correctly. Instead of a returning the correct difference, it returns the difference minus 1 day. so For example, it returns -1 instead of 0, or 1 instead of 2.

I'm guessing this is a time zone issue. Does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried setting the timeZone for my NSCalendar and the NSDateComponents to GMT, local and system, but none seem to work.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

 

[chown33]

See here for an example:
https://developer.apple.com/library...tions.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007836-SW8

In particular, see daysWithinEraFromDate:. Do it exactly the way it's shown. Does that solve the problem, or does it exhibit the same problem?