Boy oh boy. Now this is something new. Looks like I've been PNG'd on these forums. I can't seem to post any replies any more, only new posts! Now that is seriously weird. Did something break?

Okay, here's what this post is about. I really could use help here. I'm modifying the built-in ActionStreams smugmug plugin to pull further information. I've got the information drawing in correctly. My issue is with the rendering of that information.

Specifically:

1. I pull the date of the photograph. That's not the ActionStream date, but the date that smugmug has in its database, drawn from the photo's metadata/exif records.
2. The date comes in with the following format: 2007-07-29 09:14:57
3. I assume I cannot pass this string to a date variable or tag, as this is a text string not a date string. Is that a correct understanding?
4. So the next best thing. I modify the date, ignoring the time. I can do that easily with the trim_to template tag modifier, setting it to trim_to="10".
5. That gives me the date in yyyy-mm-dd format. I want something more human-readable, in mm/dd/yyyy format, or, where I come from, dd/mm/yyyy format (because, looking at 3 above, obviously I can't get MMMM dd, YYYY).
6. I understand this 'date-flipping' should be possible with the regex_replace template tag modifier. And that's the problem. I can't wrap my head around regexes. Can someone tell me how I do that, or if there is a better way to achive this result?

Thanks a lot.