Thanks for this. What was tripping me up was that _EventStartDate is just a string so I had to convert it into a datetime object to work with it like so:
<?php
$start = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_EventStartDate', true );
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$date = date("M n", strtotime($start));
echo '‘ . $date . ‘‘;
?>
Joshua Michaels
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