Adding Days to an NSDate

iPhone SDK Tips & Tricks

NSDate *now = [NSDate date];

int daysToAdd = 50;

// set up date components

NSDateComponents *components = [[[NSDateComponents alloc] init] autorelease];

[components setDay:daysToAdd];

// create a calendar

NSCalendar *gregorian = [[[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar] autorelease];

NSDate *newDate2 = [gregorian dateByAddingComponents:components toDate:now options:0];

NSLog(@"Clean: %@", newDate2);