how to get this weekend date in swift?

Question

If current date is 3 August 2018 (friday), i want to get 4 & 5 august 2018 (saturday and sunday)

if current date is 4 august (saturday), I still want to get 4 & 5 august 2018 (saturday and sunday)

if current date is 6 august (monday) then I want to get 11 & 12 August (saturday and sunday)

how to do that in swift?

What Timezone is today? perhaps that is your issue. If today is UTC it might actually be your tomorrow, which is Saturday and give you next Saturday August 11 — Brian Ogden, Aug 04 '18 at 04:34
I just marked your question down, at least before you had code you attempted, you altered your answer to ask simply how to do it without any attempt of your own — Brian Ogden, Aug 04 '18 at 05:08
Try this? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38631176/how-can-i-find-the-next-weekend-swift — Dave Kasper, Aug 04 '18 at 05:09
@BrianOgden I am sorry, but I don't wanna limit the answers from other just based on the code from the thread I shared before — sarah, Aug 04 '18 at 05:38

vadian · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-04T07:17:34.087

Calendar has convenience methods for that

dateIntervalOfWeekend(containing:start:interval:) checks if the given date is in a weekend and returns the startDate and interval(duration in seconds) in the inout parameters. The Bool return value is true if the given date is within a weekend.
nextWeekend(startingAfter:start:interval:) returns startDate und interval in the inout parameters for the upcoming (.forward parameter) or passed (.backward) weekend.

let now = Date()
var startDate = Date()
var interval : TimeInterval = 0.0
if !Calendar.current.dateIntervalOfWeekend(containing: now, start: &startDate, interval: &interval) {
    Calendar.current.nextWeekend(startingAfter: now, start: &startDate, interval: &interval, direction: .forward)
}
print(startDate, startDate.addingTimeInterval(interval))

If you need start of Saturday and start of Sunday then replace the last line with

let endDate = startDate.addingTimeInterval(interval-1)
print(startDate, Calendar.current.startOfDay(for: endDate))

Alternatively – suggested by Martin R (thanks) – use dateIntervalOfWeekend(containing:) / nextWeekend(startingAfter:) which both return a DateInterval object containing start, end and duration

let now = Date()
let calendar = Calendar.current
let weekEndInterval = calendar.dateIntervalOfWeekend(containing: now) ?? calendar.nextWeekend(startingAfter: now)!
let startDate = weekEndInterval.start
let endDate = startDate.addingTimeInterval(weekEndInterval.duration-1)
print(startDate, calendar.startOfDay(for: endDate))

Alternatively: `let weekEnd = cal.dateIntervalOfWeekend(containing: now) ?? cal.nextWeekend(startingAfter: now)!` – the latter would fail only if there are no weekends in the current calendar/locale. — Martin R, Aug 04 '18 at 07:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '18 at 05:47

let (nextSaturday,orderTotal) = getWeekends()
print(nextSaturday)
print(nextSunday)

func getWeekends() -> (Date,Date) {
        let today = Date()
        let calendar = Calendar.current

        let todayWeekday = calendar.component(.weekday, from: today)

        let addWeekdays = 7 - todayWeekday
        var components = DateComponents()
        components.weekday = addWeekdays

        let nextSaturday = calendar.date(byAdding: components, to: today)
        components.weekday = addWeekdays + 1
        let nextSunday = calendar.date(byAdding: components, to: today)

        return (nextSaturday,nextSunday)
    }

how to get this weekend date in swift?

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