Bruce,
I was having the same problem. What I found was on the Client Side tab (see attached image), near the bottom, there is a message "This bit is deprecated. Move to Resets list above". Once I deleted the date field and then added it back, this message went away but the problem was still there. So after I changed my date picture from '@d02b' to @d17b', it did not display 'mm2dd2yyyy'.
HTH...
Alan
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