Date snippets with "st" "nd" "rd" "th" (ordinal) formatting

[MarcThink]

Hi all! 👋🏻 I'm trying to get relative dates to format as ordinal numbers for a particular day.

 

I currently have {date +7d:long} which gives me, for e.g., December 1, 2020, instead of December 1st, 2020, which is what I need (I'm trying to work with Roam Research which needs ordinal formatting to link things!).

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

(I've checked out this page and done some google-fu finding only stuff that's currently too advanced for me like this.)

[deanishe]

Hi @MarcThink, welcome to the forum.

 

Can’t be done with {date:…} macros, I’m afraid. The Unicode date formats that Alfred uses don’t support English ordinal suffixes.

 

You'll need to write or find a script if you want to add st/nd/rd/th to dates.

[MarcThink]

Thanks @deanishe! Guess I'm going to have to be patient as I pick up coding and tackle this in a bit + do manually for now. 

Edited November 27, 2020 by MarcThink

[jmsv]

@MarcThink were you able to figure this out? Stumbled here for the exact same usecase—metadata snippets for Roam Research 

[deanishe]

Making dates with ordinal numbers is fairly straightforward to do. I can't help until somebody explains what's supposed to happen with them, though.

 

You can't just add a new placeholder macro to Alfred, so you need to describe what kinds of ordinal dates you need to put where and how.

 

If you just want a snippet that inserts the current date with an ordinal for the day, that's easy.

[Willster]

This thread has been dormant for a while, but I still have this issue. 

 

I'd like a date snippet in Alfred to output today's date in Roam Research in the following format:

 

[[July 3rd, 2023]]

 

Is this possible? @deanishe you seemed to suggest it might be. 🙏

[sepulchra]

 @Willster you are looking for dynamic placeholders and want this one {date:long} and you can just put your wiki formatting around it in your snippet. Here is an example:

 

Edited July 5, 2023 by sepulchra