Formatting Article Date

[chrisbuttery]

Hi,
is there any way to format the output of an articles date?

title: Hello World
date: 2012-01-31 15:00

Currently, this date outputs to : Tue Jan 31 2012 15:00:00 GMT+1100 (EST)

I would like to have it formatted as '31 Jan 2012'.

I know I could just create another custom metadata item like "myDate: 31 Jan 2012", but it would
be cool to have it automatically formatted so I dont need to worry about updating it.

[jnordberg]

The date attribute of the page plugin returns a date object so you can format it as you like.

However it's not that convenient to format dates in javascript w/o some helper functions. I'm considering bundling some node date library to provide date formatting like date.format('Y-M-D H:i:s')