Question

HI,

I need to display date as “15th November 2010” in iPhone SDK.

How do I do that?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use a Date Formatter as explained in this post:

// Given some NSDate* date
NSDateFormatter* formatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"dd MMM yyyy"];
NSString* formattedDate = [formatter stringFromDate:date];

I believe you can simply just put “th” at the end of the dd in the format string. like this:

@"ddth MMM yyy

but I don’t have my Mac in front of me to test it out. If that doesn’t work you can try something like this:

[formatter setDateFormat:@"dd"];
NSString* day = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"MMM yyyy"];
NSString* monthAndYear = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
NSString* date = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@th %@", day, monthAndYear];