# Help with date format **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 6, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-date-format/125144 "2008-01-06T06:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![veeraa2003](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b487fb/32.png) [@veeraa2003](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/veeraa2003)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-date-format/125144/1 "2008-01-06T06:29:19Z")
HI Everybody, I have one date instant. I want to format the date using strftime method, and the result I want is 2008 Jan 06th Here How can I add the suffix with the day like (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc). Thanks with regards, Veeraa.T ---
**Author:** ![veeraa2003](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b487fb/32.png) [@veeraa2003](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/veeraa2003)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-date-format/125144/2 "2008-01-06T07:57:37Z")
I don’t believe you’re going to get that directly using strftime. You’ll need to write your own helper method to return the day part with 1st, 2nd, etc. You could use strftime inside that helper to give you 2008 Jan 06 then concatenate the st, nd or th to the end of the string. That shouldn’t be too difficult to write. On Jan 6, 12:29 am, Veera S. \ **Author:** ![veeraa2003](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b487fb/32.png) [@veeraa2003](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/veeraa2003)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-date-format/125144/3 "2008-01-06T20:09:40Z") [http://svn.webtest.wvu.edu/repos/rails/plugins/eztime/](http://svn.webtest.wvu.edu/repos/rails/plugins/eztime/) might help.