Golangs $date.Format is unable to add ordinal suffixes to dates (like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th). Let’s not judge Golang for that. The following is how I remedy this issue: layouts/partials/func/formatOrdinalDate.html go-html-template 1{{- $format := .format -}} 2{{- $date := .date -}} 3{{- $shortened := "th" -}} 4{{- if in (slice 1 21 31) $date.