Altering the date format

[StarGeek]

I'm pre-filling some photos with some generic captions ("(person) at (place) on (date)" type thing) and I like that I can preset the date properly using the date format option.   Currently, I'm using "%B %d, %Y" to get output like "January 16, 2011".  My only problem is when the number of the day is less than 10, it returns a zero padding on the left of the day.  For example, I get "January 06, 2011" instead of my preferred "January 6, 2011".  I could remove it with my own user defined tag if I could get the variable in the proper format to begin with.   Unfortunately, I don't know enough to pull this off.  Any tips on how to get my desired formatting so I can operate on it in a user defined tag, or possibly an even better way to do it?

[Alan Clifford]

Try %e instead of %d.

[StarGeek]

Yep tried that.  By itself, it just returns "%e" back.  Replaced in my original format, I get "January , 2011" with no date at all.

[Phil Harvey]

This user-defined tag will do it, along with the -d "%B %d, %Y" formatting:

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%Image::ExifTool::UserDefined = (
    'Image::ExifTool::Composite' => {
        MyDate => {
            Require => 'DateTimeOriginal',
            ValueConv => '$val=$prt[0]; $val=~s/\b0//; $val',
        },
);
# end


- Phil