date-in-finnish

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A little script which generates the current date in Finnish, and tells you the cardinal and ordinal number of today's date.

I have this set up in an automation in the iOS Shortcuts app:

The first action uses the app Scriptable to run some JavaScript, which is the contents of date-in-finnish.js plus the code to run it:

// contents of date-in-finnish.js
// ...

return dateInFinnish.getForToday({
  dateFormat: {
    weekday: 'long',
    day: 'numeric',
    month: 'long',
  },
  outputFormat: `Tänään on [formattedDate]
([cardinal] → [ordinal])`,
})

So every morning it sends me a notification like this:

Pretty useful to practise saying dates and learning the cardinal and ordinal numbers.