How to format the date in KornShell script to DD-MON-YYYY?

Question

How do I format a date in a KornShell (ksh) script to DD-MON-YYYY?

I have tried the following:

date \'+%d-%h-%Y\'

It returns

Answer 1

The ^ character forces uppercase in the GNU coreutils date (at least, it does in version 6.9.92.4 of coreutils):

$ date '+%d-%^h-%Y'
04-NOV-2009

Unfortunately, ^ is not POSIX standard for date, so you'll probably have to resort to a second command such as the tr suggested by @martin clayton, if you aren't on a GNU system.