To Print dates in Formatted Way | Java Example

Define an array of ten String elements each containing an arbitrary string of the form "month/day/year";
for example,"10/29/99" or "12/5/01".
Analyze each element in the array and output the date represented in the form 29th October 1999

public class Dates {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    String[] dates = new String[10];
    String[] monthNames = {
    "January", "February", "March", "April",
    "May", "June", "July", "August", "September",
    "October", "November", "December"
    };

    int[] daysInMonth = {31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31};
    String ending = "th";
    String dayStr = null;
    String monthStr = null;
    String yearStr = null;
    char separator = '/';
    int day = 0;
    int month = 0;
    int year = 0;
    int daysIncrement = 0;

    // Generate a set of arbitrary dates:
    for(int i = 0 ; i < dates.length ; ++i) {
      year = (int)(100.0*Math.random());                               // Random year value 00 to 99
      month = (int)(12.0*Math.random()) + 1;                           // Random month value 1 to 12

      // February in a leap year has 29 days in the month so we need to allow for an extra day.
      // Leap years are messy ...
      // A leap year is a year that is divisible by 4 and not by 100, or
      // a leap year is a century and the number of centuries is divisible by 4
      daysIncrement = (((year % 4 == 0) && !(year % 100 == 0)) || (year % 400 == 0)) && (month == 2) ? 1 : 0 ;

      day = (int)(Math.random()*(daysInMonth[month-1] + daysIncrement)) + 1;
      dates[i] = "" + day + separator + month + separator + (year<10 ? "0" :"") + year;
      System.out.println("Day is " + dates[i]);
    }

    // Now the set of dates has been generated, we can interpret and output it.
    int start = 0;                                                     // Word start index
    int end = 0;                                                       // Word end index

    System.out.println();
    for(String date : dates) {
      // Extract the day, month and year strings using the familiar method.
      start = 0;
      end = date.indexOf(separator,start);
      dayStr = date.substring(start, end);
      start = end + 1;
      end = date.indexOf(separator,start);
      monthStr = date.substring(start, end);
      start = end + 1;
      yearStr = date.substring(start);

      // Figure out whether "st", "nd", "rd", or "th", should be appended to the day.
      //  Single digit day is "st", "rd", "nd", for "1", "2", "3", and "th" otherwise.
      // Days "11" to "19" are all "th".
      // The remainder are "st", "rd", "nd", for last digit "1", "2", "3",
      // and "th" otherwise.
      if(dayStr.length() == 1)
        switch(dayStr.charAt(0)) {
          case '1':
            ending = "st";
            break;
          case '2':
            ending = "nd";
            break;
          case '3':
            ending = "rd";
            break;
          default:
            ending = "th";
        }
      else if(dayStr.charAt(0) == '1')
        ending = "th";
      else
        switch(dayStr.charAt(1)) {
          case '1':
            ending = "st";
            break;
          case '2':
            ending = "nd";
            break;
          case '3':
            ending = "rd";
            break;
          default:
            ending = "th";
        }

      // We can now output the date in the required format.
      // To output the month name string we must use monthStr to get an index to the monthNames array.
      System.out.println(dayStr + ending + " " +
           monthNames[monthStr.length() == 1 ? monthStr.charAt(0) - '1': 9 + monthStr.charAt(1) - '0'] +
           " " + "19" + yearStr);

      // The preceding would be easier using Integer class methods to convert
      // the day and month strings to integers.
      // We could index the monthNames array with the expression monthNames[Integer.parseInt(monthStr)]
      // The parseInt() method converts the String argument to an int value.
    }
  }
}

Output of Above Java Program
Day is 6/6/87
Day is 30/6/79
Day is 30/4/99
Day is 8/8/68
Day is 30/6/96
Day is 27/5/97
Day is 5/3/76
Day is 4/4/27
Day is 20/11/39
Day is 26/2/23

6th June 1987
30th June 1979
30th April 1999
8th August 1968
30th June 1996
27th May 1997
5th March 1976
4th April 1927
20th November 1939
26th February 1923