I’m using .Format to format a date in my status template:
<h1>{{ .Date.Format "Monday, 2nd January 2006" }}</h1>
However, it seems that ordinals aren’t being rendered, eg the date comes out as:
I’ve tried quite a few variations and can’t seem to find a way round it 
Glad you asked, could never figure that one out…
Seems the docs are a bit confusing because the ordinal output is listed, but further down the page it says they are not supported.
Not sure if this is the exact right place, but it doesn’t look like it exists in Go https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/time/format.go#L88
Also, here’s a helpful formatter: http://fuckinggodateformat.com/
Here’s another resource: https://gohugohq.com/howto/hugo-dateformat/
You could probably work up something to handle this. I did it with Jekyll once.
ack. not a deal breaker, just a pain in the bum 
That’s useful, thanks for links. Cool name for helpful formatter 
, puts me in mind of http://ohshitgit.com/
Just as an aside, how come it doesn’t exist in Go? Is it because it’s a lot of work to implement these things and Go is (relatively) not so widespread?
I’m not sure. I remember seeing an issue about it some time ago. Might have had something to do with languages.
I’ll make a pull request on the docs to remove
“January 2nd”
Returns: March 3rd
You can use the humanize function:
this:
{{ .Date.Format "January 2, 2006" }}
returns “January 2, 2006”
this:
{{ .Date.Format "January" }}
{{ .Date.Format "2" | humanize}},
{{ .Date.Format "2006" }}
returns “January 2nd, 2006”
humanize function, that is so cool I will have to use it straight away! Thank you 
It works! Brill 
Very cool!
For reference: