Please hit me if I'm wrong, but I couldn't find a method that returns a string representation of the date format currently used to format the date. I need a method that returns something like "dd.mm.yyyy" if the current format is Zend_Date::DATE_MEDIUM. Such a string representation f.i. is used by the JQuery table sorter which then can sort table columns of the given date format. But maybe I'm just blind ;) Hope you can help.