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Return the weekday name from the weekday number.

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A name of a given day of the week.
With the week day x, build an NSDate for the first x in February 2011.
Format the NSDate so that the weekday name is generated.
Is this really necessary, or is it a tragically roundabout detour?

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  1. NSCalendar *gregorian = [[NSCalendar alloc] initWithCalendarIdentifier:NSGregorianCalendar];
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  3. NSDateComponents *dateComponents = [[NSDateComponents alloc] init];
  4. [dateComponents setWeekday: x];
  5. [dateComponents setWeekdayOrdinal:1];
  6. [dateComponents setYear:2011];
  7. [dateComponents setMonth:2];
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  9. NSDate *tempDate = [gregorian dateFromComponents:dateComponents];
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  11. NSDateFormatter *format = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
  12. [format setDateFormat:@"EEEE"];
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  14. NSString *retval = [format stringFromDate:tempDate];

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