Breaking up date format into multiple HTML elements

I just started my first ModX project tonight and am wanting to output each page’s publish date in a very specific format. Currently the only way I can find to output the date is using [*createdon*] but that outputs UNIX time, and I have no clue how to format it from there or whether or not I can use the same TV multiple times to do what I want to do.

My desired end result for outputting the date posted would look like this:


I’m assuming (hoping) there’s a simple TV to grab a portion of the posted date, but don’t know where to start looking.

This seems like way too much PHP and custom code for something as simple as getting the posted date output. Why isn’t there a cleaner method of doing this? Literally every other CMS I’ve used gives you a date output function.

If you install the PHx plugin, you can do many useful things to manipulate the output of document fields and placeholders, including formatting dates, e.g.

(I had to search Extras for "placeholders" not "PHx" to return it in the repository - all part of the great MODx Treasure Hunt )
http://modxcms.com/extras.html?view=package/view&repository=10&package=342
KP

That’s much more like what I was looking for, but I’m not sure what I’m supposed to use for formatting characters. I’m used to PHP date() characters, and that’s obviously not what’s used here since %M gave me minutes instead of a 3 letter concatenation of the month name. Is this the same set of characters as Ruby?

Date formats as per PHP strftime() function - http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/func_date_strftime.asp. Less intuitive than date(), but it avoids having to set time locales to prevent error messages.
KP