I'm trying this example from python docs: from time import gmtime, strftime strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime()) Output = 'Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:58:42 +0000' Is not there a string formatting option for the day without a leading zero? Like: 'Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:58:42 +0000' It looks like it's not in the docs. Thanks Eduardo