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Date Format Issue

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2007-03-14 07:23:33
navyvette
Registered: Mar 14 2007
Posts: 5

I am Old to acrobat, but new to Java, I am attempting to script a date that will show and print in a Jan 1st, 2nd etc format. Apparently this is not commonly done as I can find no examples. I would appreciate any help you can provide with this issue. Thank you.
 
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2007-03-16 09:55:31
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
This particular formatting is not covered by the standard date formatting symbols because it is irregular, i.e. the "st", "nd", "th". However, it's easy enough to use one of the regular date formats and then modify the resulting text using a regular expression.

Look at this series of articles to learn about date handling in JavaScript:

[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tech_corners/javascript_corner/tips/2006/date_time_part1/]http://www.acrobatusers.com/tech_corners/javascript_corner/tips/2006/date_time_part1/[/url]

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