[swift] Get day of week using NSDate

I ended up needing a few more strings from the date, including date of the week (e.g. "5th") and month of the year (e.g. Aug). Below are all three functions I have created based upon @Martin R's function and modified to return 3 char strings:

//Date String Helper Functions
func getDayOfWeek(today:String)->String? {
    let formatter  = NSDateFormatter()
    formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
    if let todayDate = formatter.dateFromString(today) {
        let myCalendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)!
        let myComponents = myCalendar.components(.Weekday, fromDate: todayDate)
        let weekDay = myComponents.weekday
        switch weekDay {
        case 1:
            return "Sun"
        case 2:
            return "Mon"
        case 3:
            return "Tue"
        case 4:
            return "Wed"
        case 5:
            return "Thu"
        case 6:
            return "Fri"
        case 7:
            return "Sat"
        default:
            print("Error fetching days")
            return "Day"
        }
    } else {
        return nil
    }
}

func getDateOfMonth(today:String)->String? {
    let formatter  = NSDateFormatter()
    formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
    if let todayDate = formatter.dateFromString(today) {
        let myCalendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)!
        let myComponents = myCalendar.components(.Day, fromDate: todayDate)
        let weekDay = myComponents.day
        switch weekDay {
        case 1:
            return "1st"
        case 2:
            return "2nd"
        case 3:
            return "3rd"
        case 4:
            return "4th"
        case 5:
            return "5th"
        case 6:
            return "6th"
        case 7:
            return "7th"
        case 8:
            return "8th"
        case 9:
            return "9th"
        case 10:
            return "10th"
        case 11:
            return "11th"
        case 12:
            return "12th"
        case 13:
            return "13th"
        case 14:
            return "14th"
        case 15:
            return "15th"
        case 16:
            return "16th"
        case 17:
            return "17th"
        case 18:
            return "18th"
        case 19:
            return "19th"
        case 20:
            return "20th"
        case 21:
            return "21st"
        case 22:
            return "22nd"
        case 23:
            return "23rd"
        case 24:
            return "24th"
        case 25:
            return "25th"
        case 26:
            return "26th"
        case 27:
            return "27th"
        case 28:
            return "28th"
        case 29:
            return "29th"
        case 30:
            return "30th"
        case 31:
            return "31st"
        default:
            print("Error fetching Date Of Month")
            return "Day"
        }
    } else {
        return nil
    }
}

func getMonthOfYear(today:String)->String? {
    let formatter  = NSDateFormatter()
    formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
    if let todayDate = formatter.dateFromString(today) {
        let myCalendar = NSCalendar(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendarIdentifierGregorian)!
        let myComponents = myCalendar.components(.Month, fromDate: todayDate)
        let month = myComponents.month
        switch month {
        case 1:
            return "Jan"
        case 2:
            return "Feb"
        case 3:
            return "Mar"
        case 4:
            return "Apr"
        case 5:
            return "May"
        case 6:
            return "Jun"
        case 7:
            return "Jul"
        case 8:
            return "Aug"
        case 9:
            return "Sep"
        case 10:
            return "Oct"
        case 11:
            return "Nov"
        case 12:
            return "Dec"
        default:
            print("Error fetching months")
            return "Month"
        }
    } else {
        return nil
    }
}