svenfuchs/rails-i18n — pull request #350 by khustochka (2013-07-28 16:39:09+00:00)
Title: ru, uk: Short day number in natural date format

Using %-d to build natural long or short human-readable date

%d will produce leading zero ("01"), %e will produce leading space (" 1") while %-d preserves natural number of digits.

I did it only for Russian and Ukrainian as long as I do not have enough knowledge about was is traditional for other languages.