Is there a simple method of displaying the day portion of a date in the format 1st, 2nd, 3rd,…? I suspect that there is no method of doing this through custom datetime formatstrings (I will be very happy to be wrong), so has anyone implemented a way of doing this?
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What language and .net version are you using ? – Vishal Mar 08 '11 at 17:45
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Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20156/is-there-an-easy-way-to-create-ordinals-in-c – StriplingWarrior Mar 08 '11 at 17:49
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@Misnomer - using .Net 3.5 at the moment. I'll take answers in any .Net language. – detaylor Mar 08 '11 at 17:53
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@StriplingWarrior - thanks for the link. I'll take a look and see if I implement a similar solution. – detaylor Mar 08 '11 at 17:53
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This is the core logic for achieving this end:
string SuffixForDay(DateTime date) {
switch (date.Day) {
case 1:
case 21:
case 31:
return "st";
case 2:
case 22:
return "nd";
case 3:
case 23:
return "rd";
default:
return "th";
}
}
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+1 - For simple code..(and for previous comment on my deleted answer !) – Vishal Mar 08 '11 at 18:10
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You can use the DateTime.Day property for this purpose.
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...and write code to add the suffix dynamically: st, nd, rd, th (it seems there are only 4 cases) – Cosmin Mar 08 '11 at 17:50
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Day would just return the integer value not the suffix "st", "rd", "th" etc – detaylor Mar 08 '11 at 17:51