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I have created a date & time type of column in my custom list, I have selected date only as display format. I can just fill date in this field on new item form but when i see this field in display item form, i see some extra charaters with the date selected, I just want to display date on display form as well. Please help. Thanks a lot.

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What kind of extra characters do you see? Can you add a screenshot? – Dribbel Jun 15 '12 at 12:20
"2012-06-01T05:00:00Z" I get this value when i select 1/June/2012. I only get this value on the display form that I've customized, not on the display form created by SharePoint. – NotesArt Jun 15 '12 at 13:13
That is the ISO format and can be changed. What method did you use to add this to the display form? IE what code are you using? – spevilgenius Jun 15 '12 at 13:22

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Use something like:

<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(@ArticleStartDate, 1033, 3)"/>

Change 1033 to you LocalID and the second number is a format specifier. See here for possible values.

Make sure you have the ddwrt namespace reference xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime" in the top of your xsl.

See also: this SO-question and this blog

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i used this,worked well <xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDate(@ArticleStartDate, 1033, 1)"/> – NotesArt Jun 16 '12 at 13:04

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