I’ve been looking at implementing something similar to this and found a solution using
get_custom_field_value('Date', true);
and it looks something like
$date = '';
if ( function_exists('get_custom_field_value') ){
$date = strtotime(get_custom_field_value('Date', false));
}
if($date != ''){
echo date("l, F j, Y", ($date));
}
Hope it helps
Incidentally this is my first post.