diff --git a/gramps/gen/datehandler/_datedisplay.py b/gramps/gen/datehandler/_datedisplay.py
index 3b3b81bdd..d33f43fb6 100644
--- a/gramps/gen/datehandler/_datedisplay.py
+++ b/gramps/gen/datehandler/_datedisplay.py
@@ -553,6 +553,8 @@ class DateDisplay:
                 return str(date_val[2])
             else:
                 value = self._tformat.replace('%m', str(date_val[1]))
+                # some locales have %b for the month, e.g. ar_EG, is_IS, nb_NO
+                value = value.replace('%b', str(date_val[1]))
                 if date_val[0] == 0: # ignore the zero day and its delimiter
                     i_day = value.find('%d')
                     value = value.replace(value[i_day:i_day+3], '')