SimpleDateFormat and Ordinals

[Rik Sweeney]

I'm using SimpleDateFormat to change a date into the format
dd MMMM yyyy
to produce, say,
29 May 2002
Is there any easy way to add on the date ordinal? So in this case it would be
29th May 2002?
Thanks

[Irene Loos]

You can get a string from your SimpleDateFormat and reformat it. Try this:

  
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MM yyyy");
String str = dateFormat.format(dateToBeFormated);
str = str.substring(0,2) + "th" + str.substring(2,10);

[ June 19, 2002: Message edited by: Irene Loos ]

[Jim Yingst]

Don't forget that "th" is not the only suffix. I don't see a way to use SimpleDateFormat to do this. I'd use Calendar to extract the day of the month, and switch on the last digit to determine whether to add "st", "nd", "rd", or "th".