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I haven't tested this for all cases, but when clicking the "Send Confirmation and Receipt?" checkbox on a membership, the template  "Memberships - Signup and Renewal Receipts (off-line)"  (id=35) seems to be receiving a date from civi that is not the expected format.

I'm in Civi 4.2 on Drupal 7.

The default template has {$receive_date|truncate:10:''|crmDate}  But for today's date (4/1/2013), what shows up in the email is "January 20th, 4".

If I modify the template to be just  {$receive_date} it comes out as "04/01/2013".  That's not pretty, but at least it's accurate.

Is there a better way to solve this, or should I stick to this solution?

Although I have fixed the issue but still want to share the reason behind this bug. The issue was occurring due to passing raw date format (= 07/17/2013) where crmDate always accepts date in mysql date format (=  20130717000000). On the otherhand there is another date modifier called date_format which can accepts any date format including the one mentioned above but we always use crmDate to respect localization, nativity, full Date Format etc. As you can see my PR for one issued in JIRA, I have just passed the mysql date format to crmDate for proper display.

Cheers,
Monish D.