Date formatting in Joda Time

Question

How can I format a LocalDate instance to the tune of 18th Aug, 2013 using Joda Time Date formatter?

LocalDate localDate = new LocalDate();
string = localDate.toString(dateformat); //what to put in here?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 17 '13 at 17:54

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The closest you will get is

String dateString = localDate.toString("dd MMM yyyy");

i.e. the date affix ("th" in this case) is not supported

answered Oct 17 '13 at 17:54

Reimeus

No way to get st, nd, rd or th? – Binoy Babu Oct 17 '13 at 17:56
That's not provided by the library unfortunately – Reimeus Oct 17 '13 at 17:57
Any other library recommended? – Binoy Babu Oct 17 '13 at 17:57
`JodaTime` is fine (the best even :)). If you really want you could do as shown in the answers in this [question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4011075/how-do-you-format-the-day-of-the-month-to-say-11th-21st-or-23rd-in-java) – Reimeus Oct 17 '13 at 18:05
there is a way, use https://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormatterBuilder.html – yinjia Aug 14 '19 at 20:29
that won't work - the `st`, `nd`, `rd` or `th` won't be handled using `DateTimeFormatter`. Thanks for the downvote BTW ;P – Reimeus Aug 18 '19 at 11:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '13 at 17:56

LocalDate localDate = new LocalDate();
DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("ddd MMMM, yyyy");
string = localDate.toString();

More information about Joda Time formatting you can find at http://www.joda.org/joda-time/key_format.html. there's also explained how to use Builder to make custom date patterns.

Good luck

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