[Zope] time formats

don't i feel like an idiot. i have read over the docs for date formats but can't find a way to return a single number day. so i have: <dtml-var "_.DateTime(issuedate)" fmt="%B %d, %Y"> issuedate, in this case, equals 1999-12-09 and it returns: December 09, 1999 but i want: December 9, 1999 i know this has to be so simpe. what am i missing? thanks, kyle