You should read the manual and the api before you start looking for tricks and the valued advice of people more experienced or who at least have taken the time and effort to read the manual and learn this stuff. Feel free to comment, but I reserve the right to delete, edit or ridicule any and all comments (even my own) this is my house and I am the gumpy old man here. This is all here and is worth what I am charging you for it, nothing so welcome, keep you expectations low and your mouth clean.
A custom date format string that extends the Time helper, you can use this in your own helpers but you need to make sure that your helper uses the time helper (you need to have a line in the declaration like var $helpers = array(‘Time);)