Create Date/DateInRegion at the next day of the week (ie. "Next Friday" [since ref date])

[otymartin]

@malcommac
I'm new to this library so I haven't discovered yet how to create these objects. I couldn't find any direct references in the swift files.

Next Friday
Next Saturday
Next Sunday

[malcommac]

We don't support it yet, but seems a nice addition.
Meanwhile you can user NSCalendar's nextDateAfterDate() method.
Let me show to you an example about:

let components = NSDateComponents()
components.weekday = 1 // in Gregorian 1 is Sunday
let nextSunday = self.calendar.nextDateAfterDate(self.absoluteTime, matchingComponents: components, options: [.MatchNextTimePreservingSmallerUnits])

[Hout]

If added then please add to docs that next Friday means the first Friday after today.
Not to be confused with the Friday in next week.

[otymartin]

@malcommac Thanks

I had since simplified what i was trying to do however I believe that would be a really handy convenience method to offer. I basically wanted my users to create events. Using UIDatePicker I wanted to limit the possible options to the following Friday Saturday or Sunday on the condition that those days are atleast 5 days away. (Gives users time to organize themselves, Didn't want next Friday to be tomorrow)

So my first time using the library, i was playing around trying to create these objects with this syntax
var nextFriday = NSDate().nextFriday I guess it just felt natural even though the method didn't exist.
etc..

//My simplified solution 😂

       let today = NSDate()
        let day1 = today + 1.days
        let day2 = today + 2.days
        let day3 = today + 3.days
        let day4 = today + 4.days
        let day5 = today + 5.days
        let day6 = today + 6.days
        let day7 = today + 7.days
e.tc..

[malcommac]

I've scheduled it for 4.1.0.

[otymartin]

@malcommac Dope 🙌

[malcommac]

Added in 4.0.8 (b9d6cec).
We have .next() func both for Date and DateInRegion objects.

Examples:

let now = DateInRegion() // 30 nov 2016, 13:55:04 CET
let nextFriday = now.next(day: .friday) // 02 dic 2016, 00:00:00 CET
let nextMonday = now.next(day: .monday) // 05 dic 2016, 00:00:00 CET

[otymartin]

beautiful thanks @malcommac

[malcommac]

Thank you for your suggestion :)