A date format should not be hard-coded. Drupal has a fine Date and time formats capability.
Proposed resolution
We should:
Add a configuration setting for the date format.
Ship a configuration (or require a module dedicated to shipping this configuration, nothing but an info file and a few datetime format files in config/install) with the same format we currently use, Month day, YEAR, which is the same as Drutopia ships with β https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drutopia_core/blob/2.0.x/config/insta... β and if we do go the contrib module route, Drutopia would switch to shipping with it too instead of defining its own custom format there.