I have myself a DateTime variable of
7/11/2014
and I want to convert that date to display as
7th November 2014
What format do I use? I have tried ToLongDateString but it misses the suffix of the day date.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2050805/getting-day-suffix-when-using-datetime-tostring – Habib Sep 30 '14 at 15:12
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20156/is-there-an-easy-way-to-create-ordinals-in-c – Rawling Sep 30 '14 at 15:12
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http://stackoverflow.com/q/9601593/497356 – Andrew Whitaker Sep 30 '14 at 15:12
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try: `string output = YourDateTime.ToString("dd MMMM yyyy", CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US"))` . This will be displaying the outputs always in English. – ChrisB Sep 30 '14 at 15:16
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@ChrisB That does not add the "th" that the OP wants. – juharr Sep 30 '14 at 15:18
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I don't believe there's any direct support for ordinals ("st", "nd", "th") within .NET. If you only need to support English, I suggest you hard code it yourself. For example:
string text = string.Format("{0}{1} {2} {3}", dt.Day, GetOrdinal(dt.Day),
dt.ToString("MMMM"), dt.Year);
(Where you'd write GetOrdinal yourself.) Note that this assumes you want exactly this format - different cultures (even within English) may prefer November 7th 2014 for example.
If you need to support all kinds of languages, it becomes very difficult - different languages have some very different approaches to ordinals.
Side-note: Even Noda Time doesn't handle this yet. I hope to eventually implement some CLDR support, which should in theory handle it for all locales. We'll see...
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1Also consider making this format an extension method of DateTime and stick it into your personal standard library. – EtherDragon Sep 30 '14 at 15:16
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As a side note, [Humanizer](http://humanizr.net/) is a great .NET project for converting numbers into ordinal or cardinal or anything else. – Icemanind Sep 30 '14 at 18:18
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@icemanind: Interesting. It doesn't seem to be using CLDR data, which seems a little unfortunate, but still an interesting project. – Jon Skeet Sep 30 '14 at 18:22
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@JonSkeet - I think you are correct. But being an open source project, hopefully, one day, CLDR data can be programmed into it. It'll probably be a large undertaking unfortunately. – Icemanind Sep 30 '14 at 18:30