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Reputation: 33741

Joda DateTimeFormat with proper number suffix

I need to print a DateTime in the form of, for example, Wednesday, January 9th, where the day of month automatically gets the proper suffix, e.g. January 2 would be January 2nd. How can I get a DateTimeFormatter that does this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2955

Answers (3)

Benoit
Benoit

Reputation: 3598

I dont like the solution of using another library, so I solve this using a regular expression to preprocess the string and remove the ordinal suffix

val dateString1 = "6th December 2016"
dateString1.replaceFirst("^(\\d+).*? (\\w+ \\d+)", "$1 $2")
val dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd MMMM yyyy").withLocale(Locale.ENGLISH)
val d1 = dtf.parseLocalDate(cured)

now d1 should be d1: org.joda.time.LocalDate = 2016-12-06

Upvotes: 0

LuxuryMode
LuxuryMode

Reputation: 33741

In Joda, for simply getting the proper suffix for the day of month, something as simple as the following should be sufficient:

        String dayOfMonth = now.dayOfMonth().getAsText();

        String suffix = "";
        if(dayOfMonth.endsWith("1")) suffix = "st";
        if(dayOfMonth.endsWith("2")) suffix = "nd";
        if(dayOfMonth.endsWith("3")) suffix= "rd";
        if(dayOfMonth.endsWith("0") || dayOfMonth.endsWith("4") || dayOfMonth.endsWith("5") || dayOfMonth.endsWith("6")
                || dayOfMonth.endsWith("7") || dayOfMonth.endsWith("8") || dayOfMonth.endsWith("9")) suffix = "th";

Upvotes: 1

jarnbjo
jarnbjo

Reputation: 34313

There is no support for this in Joda, but with some limitations, you can use the ICU library, since it includes localized rules for formatting ordinal numbers:

import com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedNumberFormat;
import com.ibm.icu.text.SimpleDateFormat;

...

SimpleDateFormat sdf = 
    new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, MMMM d", Locale.ENGLISH);

sdf.setNumberFormat(
    new RuleBasedNumberFormat(
        Locale.ENGLISH, RuleBasedNumberFormat.ORDINAL));

System.out.println(sdf.format(new Date()));

Note that you can only specify one NumberFormat instance for the SimpleDateFormat instance, so that this approach only works if the "day of month" is the only number in the date pattern. Adding "yyyy" to the date pattern will e.g. format the year as "2,013th".

The ICU classes interface with the Date and Calendar classes from the standard API, so if you really have to use Joda in the first place, you would have to create a java.util.Date from your Joda DateTime instance.

Upvotes: 4

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