How to get number of days between two dates objective-c

ios, nsdate, nsstring, objective-c

Solution

By default `[NSDate date]` return date in like `2013-08-06 08:50:25 +0000` and you have set your formatter to `yyyy-MM-dd` this, so you have to convert your startDate to `yyyy-MM-dd` this form..

Try this

NSDateFormatter *f = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [f setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-ddHH:mm:ss ZZZ"];
    NSDate *startDate = [NSDate date];
    NSLog(@"%@",startDate);
    NSDate *endDate = [f dateFromString:end];
    NSLog(@"%@",endDate);


    NSCalendar *gregorianCalendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
    NSDateComponents *components = [gregorianCalendar components:NSDayCalendarUnit
                                                        fromDate:startDate
                                                          toDate:endDate
                                                         options:0];
    return components.day; 

Problem

I'm trying to make a label that says how many days left till event. I want to calculate the difference between todays date and the events date. I'm using this code and its giving me -4600. It works fine till I use todays date. ``` NSDateFormatter *f = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [f setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"]; NSDate *startDate = [NSDate date]; NSDate *endDate = [f dateFromString:end]; NSCalendar *gregorianCalendar = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar]; NSDateComponents *components = [gregorianCalendar components:NSDayCalendarUnit fromDate:startDate toDate:endDate options:0]; return components.day; return components.day; ```

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