Confused about formatting date

[eluser]kaos78414[/eluser]
I want to pull a date from mysql records for blogs and display it like: Day, Month, Year (ex. 11 June, 2010)

But I don't really understand the user guide's examples in the date helper. When I get the date from the db it looks like: 2010-06-11 06:18:15

How can I format that to look readable?

Alternatively, is it possible to pull the day, year and month separately so I can style each in its own div?