Formatting a string to a date...need coffee...

I'm putting this down to a distinct lack of coffee in my system. I've been trying to format a date from MS SQL Server 7 to a better format. Read the manual but it's one of those "answer's right under your nose" moments. I don't need the time portion of the date, so I used $date = substr ("$date",0,10); to remove the time portion of the SQL7 date and leave 2000-05-22. What do I need to do to turn that into May 5, 2000. Many thanks. The loud noise you'll hear will be me banging my head on the desk when I get the answer. ;-) -- Ian Evans