The calendar emoji is useless and misleading since the example date is so clearly readable 📆 that people don’t understand that it’s an ipsum. Even people who know can misread it. It’s only good if you’re actually talking about literally July 17th (WhatsApp can go to heck).
Setting it to today’s date doesn’t make sense either, because so often I want to say “it’s a date”.
If you could set any number via a ZWJ sequence and the month would be the month of Squiggly Lorem (or also settable if we had 43 designs) that’d be great.