Date Prompt result in Report Header

Hi,
I am hoping someone can help, I am just getting started with BI but already thinking what I need is not possible. I hope someone can prove otherwise.
I have a dashboard with several reports that when printed goes across 3-5 pages. There is a date prompt that is used to select the business date for which I want the data to show. What I need to show is the date of the data in the report header for every page that the report runs too.
I have set the result of the date prompt to set a presentation variable and have set the report header to show @{rptDate}. This works when on the dashboard, although shows TIMESTAMP '2011-09-01' which I would like formatted as 1 September 2011, but more importantly when printed to pdf it shows @{rptDate}
I have considered setting a report which just returns this date, or putting it in a report header, but that does not meet required formatting consistency, but also I then dont know how to repeat this at the top of multiple pages.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Simon

Thanks Deepak. I am using timecreated in the footer already but that is a different date. I require the ability to run the report for historic dates, and show the date the report contains, rather than the date it was run. ie Report header shows 31/08/11 even if it was generated on 2/9/11.

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