I've got a field in a content type called "field\_program\_date" of type "Date". I'm using Drupal's `format_date()` function to format the date in the content template like this:

```
$program_date = format_date($node->field_program_date[$node->language][0]['value'], 'custom', 'F j, Y');
print $program_date;

```

Something is wrong because nothing gets printed out at all.