Detect If between time periods

Question

I'm having issue with the code below. What's the issue with it? I have tried defining the NSUInteger as an int, but it still didn't work.

NSCalendar *cal = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *components = [cal components:NSHourCalendarUnit fromDate:nowNow];
NSLog(@"%ld",[components hour]);
NSUInteger *timeHour = [components hour];
if ( timeHour < 5 &&  timeHour > 9){}

This piece of code is supposed to detect wether it's between 5, and 9 in the morning.

Answer 1

I fixed this issue by replacing the 'if' line with:

if ( [components hour] <= 5 && [components hour] >= 9){

and removing the NSUInteger line.

Answer 2

Anything that returns true for timeHour < 5 automatically will return false for timeHour > 9. You're anding these two conditions, which can never both be true at the same time, so you'll always return a false.

Also, without anything in the if block, it's pretty impossible to tell whether or not it's executing.

You might be looking for something more like this:

if (timeHour >= 5 && timeHour <= 9) {
    // stuff
}

timeHour >= 5 returns true for anything where timeHour is greater than or equal to 5.

timeHour <= 9 returns true for anything where timeHour is less than or equal to 9.

a && b returns true only when both a and b are BOTH true.

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EDIT: ALSO... NSUInteger *timeHour = [components hour];

There's a problem in this line I just caught. You're defining timeHour as an NSUInteger POINTER, rather than an NSUInteger. Get rid of the * and try again.