Form date and UTC

I'm not the Michael in the picture, but share the name.

Anyways, I've recently done stuff on the action hook gform_after_submission_$ID in order to get dates to play nicely with WP-Types. I basically did a strtotime() function call on some meta data for a date field. However, the form started showing the UTC date when hitting "edit" on the entry, and I am trying to format it back to the specified format JUST for the display purposes. The person I'm helping pointed me to this filter: gform_pre_render but I can never seem to get the actual value that will show in the form when editing. All I really need is to show the UTC date in human readable when it comes to hitting edit, and still save as UTC in the db. Any help would be appreciated.

What I have going is for both:

[php]
add_filter("gform_pre_render", "msmb_date_format");
add_filter("gform_admin_pre_render", "msmb_date_format");
function msmb_date_format($form){
	if($form["id"] != 2) return $form;
	/*$orig = $form['fields'][1]['postCustomFieldName'];*/
	/*$form['fields'][1]['postCustomFieldName'] = date('F d, Y', $thedate);*/
	return $form;
}

I'm mostly struggling with how to retrieve the actual value stored in the meta field "wpcf-date" which is what one of the form fields saves to. Once I can actually retrieve that, I can filter it through date() right before showing in the input field. Hopefully this is making sense.

I believe it is a meta field, but I'm struggling to find the right ID to use in get_post_meta. I've wondered if it's stored in the $entries object by chance. If not, I may need to just tinker and try IDs associated with the form. Would doing a global $post help, in your opinion?

I believe it's coming from WP-Types plugin, which would explain why it's not underscored like GF does. I think I'm going to try a global $post and see what that brings about. Will report back.

May be a couple hours before i get the db information. Thanks for the help thus far Chris and David. While waiting for access, I'll try a few things.

ah, I'll just use $_GET['gform_post_id']. It seems to work well enough :D