Adding Date Suffixes

Question

I have the following Javascript to display the date on a page, however I wanted to add in the "th", "st" and "rd" suffixes after each date number (ie. "6th").

Is there a way of doing this with the following code I currently have?

    <script language="Javascript">
<!-- 

// Array of day names
var dayNames = new Array("You're working today? It's Sunday","Hello, it's Monday","Hello, it's Tuesday","Hello, it's Wednesday",
    "Hello, it's Thursday","Hello, it's Friday","You're working today? It's Saturday");

// Array of month Names
var monthNames = new Array(
"January","February","March","April","May","June","July",
"August","September","October","November","December");

var now = new Date();
document.write (dayNames[now.getDay()] + ", " + 
now.getDate() + " " + 
monthNames[now.getMonth()] + " " + 
now.getFullYear() + ".");
// -->
</script>

Thanks in advance

It was answered before here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13627586/2362973 — mrgoos, Jul 12 '16 at 08:23
There are [*many similar questions*](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bjavascript%5D+add+ordinal). — RobG, Jul 12 '16 at 23:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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There are other solutions if you don't want to use a library. Doing a quick search on StackOverflow led me to this answer. You'll need to incorporate one of these functions into your code taking the value from now.getDate().

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jul 12 '16 at 08:24

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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You are using dayNames[now.getDay()] suggests that the key you are searching for is now.getDay(), which is not zero-based. I suggest that you move your value for Sunday in the end of the array and use dayNames[now.getDay() - 1] for more clarity.

On the subject, you can check this answer for the solution: Convert date day (05/12/2011 to 12th)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Jul 12 '16 at 08:26

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Adding Date Suffixes

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