Re: NSCalendarDate returns wrong dayOfWeek

FROM : Kevin Ballard
DATE : Thu Oct 07 23:57:03 2004

7/12/2005 is a Tuesday. dayOfWeek: returns 0-6 with 0 as Sunday. Thus,
dayOfWeek: returning 2 is indeed correct as 2 means Tuesday.

I checked the day using the unix 'cal' utility.

On Oct 7, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Dominic Feira wrote:

> Somehow I have managed to construct a NSCalendarDate that returns the
> incorrect dayOfWeek.
> I am doing a lot of manipulating of the date by adding years, months,
> and days to it depending on various parameters.  I don't understand
> how it is possible to end up with a date that is incorrect.
>
> I have using dateByAddingYears:months:days:hours:minutes:seconds. 
> There is a small note in the docs that state it is possible to land on
> the next day by accident because of daylight savings time, but it
> doesn't say that the date you get will be out of synch with reality
> and invalid.
>
> I log the date and I get:
> [result dayOfWeek]: 2            // SHOULD BE 3
> 2005-07-12 18:17:45 -0400
>
> If you check in iCal, this is clearly incorrect.
>
> Is there something about NSCalendarDate that I am misunderstanding?


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