From: "tkellen (Tyler Kellen)" <tyler@...> Date: 2013-04-12T23:27:04+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:54225] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8181] New flag for strftime that supports adding ordinal suffixes to numbers Issue #8181 has been updated by tkellen (Tyler Kellen). naruse (Yui NARUSE) wrote: > tkellen (Tyler Kellen) wrote: > > strftime currently supports several flags for formatting the time output, why not this one? > > Ruby's strftime is derived from a C function standardized by ISO C90/POSIX/SUV. > So it must be careful with adding minor specifier. > see also http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strftime.html Thanks naruse, I did not know that. Could you explain what you mean by being careful? ---------------------------------------- Feature #8181: New flag for strftime that supports adding ordinal suffixes to numbers https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8181#change-38492 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? -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/