Display custom date format + ordinal suffix

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Joe
I'm trying to find an easier alternative to displaying this date format from a timestamp: Oct 27th 2018, 10:00 AM (includes ordinal suffix).

I've only been able to achieve showing the ordinal suffix by adding a new symbol that does this automatically ({$ORDINAL}) but I have to split up the date in multiple {$FROM_TIMESTAMP} symbols to use this method. Frankly, it looks kinda hideous:

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{$FROM_TIMESTAMP*,%b,{ADD_DATE_RAW}} {$ORDINAL,{$FROM_TIMESTAMP*,%e,{ADD_DATE_RAW}}} {$FROM_TIMESTAMP*,%Y\, %l:%M %p,{ADD_DATE_RAW}}

The above works, but I was hoping for a much simpler way of doing this. According to a user comment on php.net, we can use a %O (capital 'o') parameter to display the ordinal suffix (though it's not officially documented as supported using php's strftime).

I tried this but it doesn't work:

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{$FROM_TIMESTAMP*,%b %e %O %Y\, %l:%M %p,{ADD_DATE_RAW}}

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Chris Graham
Composr provides some extensions such as %o.

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Joe
Ah. I was close then! :thumbs:

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{$FROM_TIMESTAMP*,%b %e%o %Y\, %l:%M %p,{ADD_DATE_RAW}}
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