Change formatting dates with GREP

I am laying out a book with thusands of dates all formatted e.g 02-03-1913. I want to hange these to (eg) 2nd March 1913. I expected it to be a lengthy, staged, operation. But I cannot get GREP to recognise specific numbers (e.g. 02) If worked through logically I did think I could do it in stages. Can anyone help?

Hi,
Using Multi-Find/Change, 12 regex, 1 set. So, 1 click and done!
1/ Search: (0?)(\d+)-01-(\d{4})
Replace by: $2~Sjanuary~S$3
2/ Search: (0?)(\d+)-02-(\d{4})
Replace by: $2~Sfebruary~S$3
12/ Search: (0?)(\d+)-12-(\d{4})
Replace by: $2~Sdecember~S$3

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> crash wrote:
>> Hi all. I'm tryign to find the solution on the web,
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>>
>> I"m working on a customized button my my HTMLArea
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>
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