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

In kotlin you can use like this

fun changeDateFormats(currentFormat: String, dateString: String): String {
        var result = ""
        try {
            val formatterOld = SimpleDateFormat(currentFormat, Locale.getDefault())
            formatterOld.timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")

            var date: Date? = null

            date = formatterOld.parse(dateString)

            val dayFormate = SimpleDateFormat("d", Locale.getDefault())
            var day = dayFormate.format(date)

            val formatterNew = SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a, d'" + getDayOfMonthSuffix(day.toInt()) + "' MMM yy", Locale.getDefault())

            if (date != null) {
                result = formatterNew.format(date)
            }

        } catch (e: ParseException) {
            e.printStackTrace()
            return dateString
        }

        return result
    }


    private fun getDayOfMonthSuffix(n: Int): String {
        if (n in 11..13) {
            return "th"
        }
        when (n % 10) {
            1 -> return "st"
            2 -> return "nd"
            3 -> return "rd"
            else -> return "th"
        }
    }

set like this

  txt_chat_time_me.text = changeDateFormats("SERVER_DATE", "DATE")