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Maybe it was a temporary problem? It took fraction of a second for me.

I had the same problem with russian. I ended up with going through my theme and changing every time/date output function to the format I want.
You may start by removing the S from the above example date(‘l, jS F Y’);
It will remove the siffixes from numbers – 1st November will become 1 November. If you need further help with this let me know.