diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index 27fcc358..cf8094c9 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
  ===== trunk =====
+ 05.04.2014
+ - bugfix default date format leads to extra spaces when displaying dates with single digit days (Issue 182)
+ 
  26.03.2014
  - bugfix Smart_Resource_Custom should not lowercase the resource name (Issue 183)
  
diff --git a/libs/Smarty.class.php b/libs/Smarty.class.php
index a3edac7d..5ec25a30 100644
--- a/libs/Smarty.class.php
+++ b/libs/Smarty.class.php
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ if (!defined('SMARTY_RESOURCE_DATE_FORMAT')) {
     /**
      * @deprecated in favor of Smarty::$_DATE_FORMAT
      */
-    define('SMARTY_RESOURCE_DATE_FORMAT', '%b %e, %Y');
+    define('SMARTY_RESOURCE_DATE_FORMAT', '%b %-e, %Y');
 }
 
 /**