I have created a custom post type for contests.

and 1 of the fields is a closing date , everything is going fine only i cant figure out how to output the date format on the way i want it.

with this code in my loop i get the date , but not as ( day-Month-year )

```
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "_closingdate", array("format" => 'd m, Y'), true); ?>

```

the output remains year-month-day

i have searched everywhere to find a solution but i cant find it or i am overlooking something