diff -r 47fac1692ede -r 9f70512ae2cf mercurial/utils/dateutil.py
--- a/mercurial/utils/dateutil.py	Sun Nov 10 07:30:14 2019 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/utils/dateutil.py	Fri Nov 08 11:19:20 2019 -0800
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
     if date == b'now' or date == _(b'now'):
         return makedate()
     if date == b'today' or date == _(b'today'):
-        date = datetime.date.today().strftime(r'%b %d')
+        date = datetime.date.today().strftime('%b %d')
         date = encoding.strtolocal(date)
     elif date == b'yesterday' or date == _(b'yesterday'):
         date = (datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)).strftime(