Magento Email Template Help

Question

I need to format the date in an email template. The date gets included in the plain .html email as follows.

Dispatch Date: {{var order.getShippingDate()}}

Is there any way I can format this date? I've tried just using the standard php date() function to format it to no avail.

Answer 1

strtotime any help? It can parse a data back to a unix timestamp, which is what date() expects as an input.

edit after comment:

You can try creating a custom version of app/code/core/mage/sales/model/order.php under the app/code/local folder (it goes here so magento updates don't overwrite it). It contains a method called getCreatedAtFormated - you could apply the same principle to the shipping data and see if that achieves what you need to do.