Format Date in Email Template

[enable.services]

I am looking to format a date field within an Email Template however using the standard PDF format does not work. Is there a specific format for emails...

[khopper]

I am in EST -5 Time America/New_York.
I have it set this way in the system by default and the local time on the server is also set to EST -5 America/New_York...

[ares]

Despite the fact that I have chosen the following date format from Administration-> Settings DD/MM/YYYY the date fields are presenting as MM/DD/YYY...