title: g:formatDate alternative in a service
body: <p>Can I somehow format a date in a way similar to how g:formatDate tag is doing this, but in Service? Including i18n and l10n? </p>
  
  <p>It may not be the best practice to do this in a Service, as this should be more likely part of the view logic, but I need to return a date as a part of the JSON response and I don't want to deal with this in JS (mainly because of l10n).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for advice. </p>