PHP date and Zend_Date conversion?

I've got this date :

$date = 'Mon Feb 07 00:00:00 CST 2011';

But I want $date to be formatted as 02-07-2011 only, using Zend framework or core 开发者_如何学Pythonphp also.

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<?php
$date = new DateTime('Mon Feb 07 00:00:00 CST 2011');

echo $date->format('m-d-Y');

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$date='Mon Feb 07 00:00:00 CST 2011';
echo date('m-d-Y',strtotime($date));

Working example at http://codepad.org/gYfgYqED