JavaScript: Get English ordinal suffix for the day of the month

Last update on April 24 2023 07:07:39 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-23 with Solution

Write a JavaScript function to get the English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters (st, nd, rd, or th).

Test Data :
dt= new Date();
console.log(english_ordinal_suffix(dt));
"23rd"
dt = new Date(2015, 10, 1);
console.log(english_ordinal_suffix(dt));
"1st"

Sample Solution:-

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript function to get English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters (st, nd, rd or th.)</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

function english_ordinal_suffix(dt)
  {
    return dt.getDate()+(dt.getDate() % 10 == 1 && dt.getDate() != 11 ? 'st' : (dt.getDate() % 10 == 2 && dt.getDate() != 12 ? 'nd' : (dt.getDate() % 10 == 3 && dt.getDate() != 13 ? 'rd' : 'th'))); 
  }

dt = new Date();
console.log(english_ordinal_suffix(dt));

dt = new Date(2015, 10, 1);
console.log(english_ordinal_suffix(dt));

Sample Output:

20th
1st

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

See the Pen JavaScript - Get English ordinal suffix for the day of the month-date-ex-23 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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