I know this will give me the day of the month as a number (11
, 21
, 23
):
SimpleDateFormat formatDayOfMonth = new SimpleDateFormat("d");
But how do you format the day of the month to include an ordinal indicator, say 11th
, 21st
or 23rd
?
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Answer
// https://github.com/google/guava import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.*; String getDayOfMonthSuffix(final int n) { checkArgument(n >= 1 && n <= 31, "illegal day of month: " + n); if (n >= 11 && n <= 13) { return "th"; } switch (n % 10) { case 1: return "st"; case 2: return "nd"; case 3: return "rd"; default: return "th"; } }
The table from @kaliatech is nice, but since the same information is repeated, it opens the chance for a bug. Such a bug actually exists in the table for 7tn
, 17tn
, and 27tn
(this bug might get fixed as time goes on because of the fluid nature of StackOverflow, so check the version history on the answer to see the error).