| //创建日期格式化对象 NSDateFormatter
 *dateFormatter=[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];  [dateFormatter
 setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd
 HH:mm"];     //创建了两个日期对象 NSDate
 *date1=[dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2010-3-3
 11:00"]; NSDate
 *date2=[dateFormatter dateFromString:@"2010-3-4
 12:00"]; //NSDate
 *date=[NSDate date];     //NSString
 *curdate=[dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];    //取两个日期对象的时间间隔: //这里的NSTimeInterval
 并不是对象,是基本型,其实是double类型,是由c定义的:typedef double NSTimeInterval;  NSTimeIntervaltime=[date2
 timeIntervalSinceDate:date1];    int
days=((int)time)/(3600*24); int
hours=((int)time)%(3600*24)/3600; NSString
 *dateContent=[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%i天%i小时",days,hours]; | 
比较日期大小是任何编程语言都会经常遇到的问题,再iOS编程中,通常用NSDate对象来存储一个时间(包括日期和时间、时区),而且 NSDate类提供了compare方法来进行时间的比较,但有时不想那么精确的知道两个日期的大小(默认会比较到秒),可以用下面的实现方法:
+(int)compareOneDay:(NSDate *)oneDay withAnotherDay:(NSDate *)anotherDay
{
    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd-MM-yyyy"];
    NSString *oneDayStr = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:oneDay];
    NSString *anotherDayStr = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:anotherDay];
    NSDate *dateA = [dateFormatter dateFromString:oneDayStr];
    NSDate *dateB = [dateFormatter dateFromString:anotherDayStr];
    NSComparisonResult result = [dateA compare:dateB];
    NSLog(@"date1 : %@, date2 : %@", oneDay, anotherDay);
    if (result == NSOrderedDescending) {
        //NSLog(@"Date1  is in the future");
        return 1;
    }
    else if (result == NSOrderedAscending){
        //NSLog(@"Date1 is in the past");
        return -1;
    }
    //NSLog(@"Both dates are the same");
    return 0;
             
}
原文地址:http://blog.csdn.net/huanghaiyan_123/article/details/45534817