On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:22:56, mmalc Crawford wrote:

> 
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:04 pm, Rick Mann wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to take an NSDate and get a relative day-of-week name. For example, 
>> if today is 2/24, and the NSDate is some time on 2/23, it would be 
>> "Yesterday." If the NSDate were 2/22, it would be "Monday."
>> 
>> Is there an existing format specifier for this (fully localized, etc)? Or 
>> must I roll my own for this?
>> 
> 
> NSDateFormatter > setDoesRelativeDateFormatting:
> Specifies whether the receiver uses phrases such as “today” and “tomorrow” 
> for the date component.
> 
> <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSDateFormatter_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSDateFormatter/setDoesRelativeDateFormatting:>

Sweet, thanks! I totally did not see that.

Oh, wait. Sorry, I should've specified iPhone OS. Doesn't seem to do that on 
iPhone OS.

Thanks, anyway.

-- 
Rick

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