Get a single date value from a date field on a node with entity_metadata_wrapper() I want to retrieve a date value from a date field attached to a node with entity_metadata_wrapper.

So far:

$node_wrapper-&gt;field_tournament_date-&gt;value();


Provides an array. Not many other methods work. So, I have to do:

$date = $node_wrapper-&gt;field_tournament_date-&gt;value();
$start_date = format_date($date['value'], 'short');


Is there a cleaner way of getting the value of a date field without breaking it up like that?
In these situations with meta_data_wrapper you could put the array-value before the value function, like this:

$date = $node_wrapper-&gt;field_tournament_date-&gt;value-&gt;value();