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

Many of the examples here will not work for 11, 12, 13. This is more generic and will work for all case.

switch (date) {
                case 1:
                case 21:
                case 31:
                    return "" + date + "st";

                case 2:
                case 22:
                    return "" + date + "nd";

                case 3:
                case 23:
                    return "" + date + "rd";

                default:
                    return "" + date + "th";
}