Use get_option to retrieve date format

Hi there,

I’m trying to code the date into my header.php tagline – the self-updating kind ?? The tagline isn’t a php echo; it’s a get_option — specifically this:

<div id="container">
	   <?php $header_caption = get_option('tz_header_caption');
	    if( !empty( $header_caption ) ) { ?>
	    <!-- BEGIN #header-top -->
        <div id="header-top">
            <p><?php echo stripslashes($header_caption); ?></p>
        <!-- END #header-top -->'

And in theme-options.php, this is the corresponding code:
'$options[] = array( 'name' => __('Header Caption', 'framework'),
                    'desc' => __('Enter a message to display above your navigation', 'framework'),
                    'id' => $shortname . '_header_caption',
                    'std' => '',
                    'type' => 'textarea');

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I am certain that I need to adjust the theme-options.php, because initially all I did was to replace ‘tz_header_caption’ in the header.php snippet with ‘date_format’. But all that did was give me a tagline that said m/d/y.

So, how do I make this work?

Thank you,

Amy