Day of Week in Month (numeric). The example is for the 1st Wednesday in April

Question

Hi i have a date in swift that i get from http call ...

Now i want to format this date like : 1st Wed April

let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "F EEEE MMM" 
let now = stats.getData()
let dateString = formatter.string(from: now)

This returns 1 Wednesday Apr but i need to formate date as 1st Wednesday Apr

yes i want to format the date like 1st or 2nd or 3rd Day of the date month — vacca boia, Apr 01 '20 at 09:47
Does this answer your question? [Ordinary Date Format "13th June 2007" in Swift](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37536082/ordinary-date-format-13th-june-2007-in-swift) — Larme, Apr 01 '20 at 10:11

Joakim Danielson · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-01T10:29:53.983

1

To solve this we need two formatters, one for the date and one NumberFormatter for formatting 1 into 1st etc. Note that to get the order of the specific weekday in the month we use the date component .weekdayOrdinal.

The date pattern also needs to be changed to E from EEEE to show the abbreviated day name and month needs to be MMMM to show the full month name

let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "E MMMM"
let numberFormatter = NumberFormatter()
numberFormatter.numberStyle = .ordinal

let now = stats.getData()
let day = Calendar.current.component(.weekdayOrdinal, from: now)
let ordinalDay = numberFormatter.string(from: NSNumber(value: day)) ?? String(day)

let dateString = "\(ordinalDay) \(formatter.string(from: now))"

edited Apr 01 '20 at 10:29

answered Apr 01 '20 at 09:57

Joakim Danielson

43,251
5
22
52

Day of Week in Month (numeric). The example is for the 2nd Wed in July – vacca boia Apr 01 '20 at 10:15
formatter.dateFormat = "F EEEE MMM" found this but return 1 wednesday Apr and not 1st Wednseday Apr – vacca boia Apr 01 '20 at 10:17
i edited my question the question that you told me didn't solve my problem – vacca boia Apr 01 '20 at 10:20
for example next week we have wedneday 8 April right ? i want 2nd Wednesday April – vacca boia Apr 01 '20 at 10:22
sorry there is a method to return the day name and month name in Italian ? – vacca boia Apr 01 '20 at 10:31
You control that by setting the Locale for the formatter, `formatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "it_IT")` – Joakim Danielson Apr 01 '20 at 10:33
and for make the first letter of the day and the month uppercase like 1° Merc Aprile – vacca boia Apr 01 '20 at 10:41
because in Italian locale there are all lowercase – vacca boia Apr 01 '20 at 10:49
@vaccaboia I can't change the locale for Italy, this is something you need to research further yourself. It's probably easiest to find a solution that fixes the result afterwards. – Joakim Danielson Apr 01 '20 at 11:18

Day of Week in Month (numeric). The example is for the 1st Wednesday in April

1 Answers1