<p>I want to display dates in the format: short day of week, short month, day of month without leading zero but including "th", "st", "nd", or "rd" suffix.</p>

<p>For example, the day this question was asked would display "Thu Oct 2nd".</p>

<p>I'm using Ruby 1.8.7, and <a href="http://ruby-doc.org/core/Time.html#method-i-strftime" rel="noreferrer">Time.strftime</a> just doesn't seem to do this.  I'd prefer a standard library if one exists.</p>

You can use active_support's ordinalize helper method on numbers.
```
```
>> 3.ordinalize
=> "3rd"
>> 2.ordinalize
=> "2nd"
>> 1.ordinalize
=> "1st"
```
```