From: "tkellen (Tyler Kellen)" <tyler@...>
Date: 2013-04-12T09:07:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:54206] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8181] New flag for strftime that supports adding ordinal suffixes to numbers


Issue #8181 has been updated by tkellen (Tyler Kellen).


zzak (Zachary Scott) wrote:
> ActiveSupport has ordinalize, maybe you want to use that instead.

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I don't need or want to require that giant for this simple feature.  I can (and have) written a simple ordinalize method which I am currently using.

That said, I think that this:
Time.new.strftime("%a %b %@d")

...is pretty unambigously better than:
require 'activesupport'
time = Time.new
time.strftime("%a %b #{time.day.ordinalize}")

strftime currently supports several flags for formatting the time output, why not this one?

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Feature #8181: New flag for strftime that supports adding ordinal suffixes to numbers
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8181#change-38478

Author: tkellen (Tyler Kellen)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: lib
Target version: current: 2.1.0


This is my first issue on the ruby tracker--hopefully I'm asking in the right place?

It would be nice if you could use strftime to generate dates with ordinal suffixes.  I propose the addition of another flag to support this: the @ character.

The intended usage would be:
> Date.parse('2013-03-01').strftime('%B %@d, %Y')
 => "March 1st, 2013"
> Date.parse('2013-03-02').strftime('%B %@d, %Y')
 => "March 2nd, 2013"
> Date.parse('2013-03-03').strftime('%B %@d, %Y')
 => "March 3rd, 2013"

...etc

Assuming this would be accepted, I'd be happy to implement the feature.  Could someone tell me how to proceed?


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