Day of Week Date Display (Full date display)

[Zoei]

I am preparing a form and want users to select dates.
When they do, I want the date displayed with the day of the week.
For example, if they select June 9th, 2024 from the date picker, I want it to display as Monday, June 20th, 2024.
How do I do this?

[PDF Automation Station · Accepted solution]

In the format tab select Date, then Custom, then enter the following into the field:

dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy

It won't give you the st, nd, rd in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.  You would have to write a custom function for that.

[Zoei]

Thanks!

What custom function should I write for the suffixes?

[PDF Automation Station]

In the format tab, enter the following custom format script:

AFDate_FormatEx("mm/dd/yyyy");
var date=util.scand("mm/dd/yyyy", event.value);
function ordinal(n)
{
var s = ['th', 'st', 'nd', 'rd'];
var m = n % 100;
return n + (s[(m - 20) % 10] || s[m] || s[0]);
};

event.value=util.printd("dddd, mmmm ",date)+
ordinal(util.printd("d",date))+
util.printd(", yyyy", date);

And enter the follow custom keystroke script:

AFDate_KeystrokeEx("mm/dd/yyyy");

These 2 articles explain how the custom format scripts work and how to find the scripts:

https://pdfautomationstation.substack.com/p/custom-format-for-pdf-fields

https://pdfautomationstation.substack.com/p/more-custom-formatting-for-pdf-fields

[try67]

If you do that be aware that the code might "disappear" when entered. It should still work, though.

This happens when you use one of Acrobat's internal (undocumented) functions, such as AFDate_FormatEx.