title: How can I format a date coming from MongoDB?
body: <p>I'm using Jade to render my views from within Express.js. I am saving documents in MongoDB and using Mongoose to access my documents. I am saving a default date created when a new document is created and I am returning that date created attribute to the view, where is needs to be formatted. The format of the date being stored within MongoDB is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Thu Dec 29 2011 20:14:56 GMT-0600 (CST)
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  <p><strong>My question is: How do I format this date in Jade (or Mongoose or Node.JS) coming back from MongoDB?</strong></p>