It is to do with the Contact Form 7 plugin getting and formatting data it gets from a custom post meta.
The Custom date field I have stores fine and when I add the first bit of code above it gets the custom meta date and shows it in the email.
The issue I am having is that I cant get the date to format in the email correctly. When I use the snip-it of code below, it doesn’t work.
For example The working code displays the date as 20140131, and the second (broken) code I want it to show as Friday, January 31st, 2014
I am adding to code to the special-mail-tags.php within the contact form 7 files.