Print ordinal date suffixes (1st/2nd/3rd/4th) in GoHugo
Golangs $date.Format is unable to add ordinal suffixes to dates (like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th). Let’s not judge Golang for that. The following is how I remedy this issue:
layouts/partials/func/formatOrdinalDate.html
1{{- $format := .format -}}
2{{- $date := .date -}}
3{{- $shortened := "th" -}}
4{{- if in (slice 1 21 31) $date.Day -}}
5 {{- $shortened = "st" -}}
6{{- else if in (slice 2 22) $date.Day -}}
7 {{- $shortened = "and" -}}
8{{- else if in (slice 3 23) $date.Day -}}
9 {{- $shortened = "rd" -}}
10{{- end }}
11{{- return $date.Format (printf $format $shortened) -}}call to this partial:
Inside of the format string you can use whatever formatting you want to display based on what Golang understands as date format string. Then add a %s at the location where you wish to have the ordinal suffix.
And that’s that.