I'm looking at the code and there appears to be two different methods for formatting the date based on the browser. The code you described is for IE6 broswers only?
<?php if ($is_ie6 == "yes") { ?>
<div id="s5_date">
<?php echo date("l");?>, <?php echo date("F j, Y");?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
I'm using IE8 and it appears that the code that is formatting the date is as follows:
<?php if ($is_ie6 == "no") { ?>
<div class="s5_wrap">
<div id="s5_date">
<?php echo JHTML::_('date', 'now', JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC')) ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
So in this case, how would I go about formatting the date? (Month day, year versus day month year)