Date format of 22nd April 2016?

Question

what will be the date format of dates like :
1st April,2016
3rd April,2016
22nd April,2016

And is there any API to parse dates like that ?

Edit : Dupllicate questions does not contain any answer about parsing date containg 1(st), 2(nd),3(rd).I don't know how to parse st in 1st, nd in 2nd and rd in 3rd.

See also [this example](https://gist.github.com/MenoData/a133c20f54e2ee5eaa60656caccfdd11) for using my API (Time4J). — Meno Hochschild, Apr 22 '16 at 10:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 22 '16 at 08:17

The problem is that Java doesn't understand the ordinal indicator suffix, 1st, 2nd 3rd etc. You firstly need to remove this and then pass that into a DateFormat.

I'd also recommend ensuring your Locale is set correctly, as "April" will be a different string in different languages which will effect geographical portability of your software.

public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
    System.out.println(parseWithOrdinals("1st April,2016"));
    System.out.println(parseWithOrdinals("3rd April,2016"));
    System.out.println(parseWithOrdinals("22nd April,2016"));
}

private static Date parseWithOrdinals(String date) throws ParseException {
    DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM,yyyy", Locale.UK);
    String corrected = date.replaceFirst("(\\d+)+.*\\s(.*)", "$1 $2");
    return format.parse(corrected);
}

Date format of 22nd April 2016?

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