Thread:Help talk:Displaying information/'Date' types don't seem to use/respond to " -F" formatting

I'm using referata.com to host my sites, and can't seem to get the #-F formatting to have any effect. Is there a typo in the example? Here is my query:

Adding "#-F [F d, y]" before the "=" in the Modification date call (or similar) has no effect.

I'd like the Modification date to be formatted differently - especially, to be able to display it in local time rather than GMT. I can do this by constructing a display template, but would rather have it done by the query itself as this page says I can!