How do you format the day of the month to say “11th”, “21st” or “23rd” (ordinal indicator)?

Question

I know this will give me the day of the month as a number (11, 21, 23):

SimpleDateFormat formatDayOfMonth = new Simple         


        

Answer 1

Question is little old. As this question is very noisy so posting what I did solved with static method as a util. Just copy, paste and use it!

 public static String getFormattedDate(Date date){
            Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
            cal.setTime(date);
            //2nd of march 2015
            int day=cal.get(Calendar.DATE);

            if(!((day>10) && (day<19)))
            switch (day % 10) {
            case 1:  
                return new SimpleDateFormat("d'st' 'of' MMMM yyyy").format(date);
            case 2:  
                return new SimpleDateFormat("d'nd' 'of' MMMM yyyy").format(date);
            case 3:  
                return new SimpleDateFormat("d'rd' 'of' MMMM yyyy").format(date);
            default: 
                return new SimpleDateFormat("d'th' 'of' MMMM yyyy").format(date);
        }
        return new SimpleDateFormat("d'th' 'of' MMMM yyyy").format(date);
    }

For testing purose

Example: calling it from main method!

Date date = new Date();
        Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.setTime(date);
        for(int i=0;i<32;i++){
          System.out.println(getFormattedDate(cal.getTime()));
          cal.set(Calendar.DATE,(cal.getTime().getDate()+1));
        }

Output:

22nd of February 2018
23rd of February 2018
24th of February 2018
25th of February 2018
26th of February 2018
27th of February 2018
28th of February 2018
1st of March 2018
2nd of March 2018
3rd of March 2018
4th of March 2018
5th of March 2018
6th of March 2018
7th of March 2018
8th of March 2018
9th of March 2018
10th of March 2018
11th of March 2018
12th of March 2018
13th of March 2018
14th of March 2018
15th of March 2018
16th of March 2018
17th of March 2018
18th of March 2018
19th of March 2018
20th of March 2018
21st of March 2018
22nd of March 2018
23rd of March 2018
24th of March 2018
25th of March 2018