Help with Custom Formatting

you can try formatting option under Events > Settings > Formatting > Date/Time > Date Format

Thank you, but I don’t want to change it globally, I want to understand how formatting works. I don’t understand the syntax and I want to learn it.

Date manipulation could only be done with custom coding, you may want to look into using a custom placeholder to do that.

This may help:
https://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-a-custom-placeholder-for-event-formatting/

Customizing date formats are covered at the link below under “Custom Date/Time Formatting”.

https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/placeholders/

Formatting the start date of an event as January 18, 2018, for example, would be done like this:

#_{F j, Y}