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

Try below function:

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);
}