washingtonpost.com: Behind the time

Part of a series documenting washingtonpost.com’s typos, layout quirks, and general sub-parness.
Today’s installment: blog date styling
Time until fixed: unfixed; has persisted since inception of washingtonpost.com blogs

Notice how when the month is less than 10 it uses 0 + digit, but when the day is less than 10 it uses a <space> + day? It’s called strftime, guys. Know it. Love it.