DateTools

DateTools was written to streamline date and time handling in Objective-C. Classes and concepts from other languages served as an inspiration for DateTools, especially the DateTime structure and [Time Period Library](Time Period Library) for .NET. Through these classes and others, DateTools removes the boilerplate required to access date components, handles more nuanced date comparisons, and serves as the foundation for entirely new concepts like Time Periods and their collections.

Installation

Cocoapods - Pending! pod 'DateTools'

Manual Installation All the classes required for DateTools are located in the DateTools folder in the root of this repository. They are listed below:

• DateTools.h
• NSDate+DateTools.{h,m}
• DTConstants.h
• DTError.{h,m}
• DTTimePeriod.{h,m}
• DTTimePeriodGroup.{h,m}
• DTTimePeriodCollection.{h,m}
• DTTimePeriodChain.{h,m}

DateTools.h contains the headers for all the other files. Import this if you want to link to the entire framework.

Table of Contents

• NSDate+DateTools
  • Time Ago
  • Date Components
  • Date Editing
  • Date Comparison
  • Formatted Date Strings
• Time Periods
  • Initialization
  • Time Period Info
  • Manipulation
  • Relationships
• Time Period Groups
  • Introduction
  • Time Period Collections
  • Time Period Chains
• Unit Tests
• Credits
• License

##License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Matthew York

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