One of the very useful characteristics of mod_include is it's ability to insert date strings into documents. The output can be customized by use of the timefmt directive and then echoing the DATE_LOCAL variable.
If no timefmt string is set, the output from this:
<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->
is just this:

Per the mod_include documentation:

timefmt
The value is a string to be used by the strftime(3) library routine when printing dates.

So for instance this code:
<!--#config timefmt="%B %e, %Y" --><!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->
will output this result:

and this code:
<!--#config timefmt="%A, %b %e" --><!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->
will output this result

and this code:
<!--#config timefmt="%A, %B %e, %Y" --><!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->
will output this result

     %A    is replaced by national representation of the full weekday name.
     <!--#config timefmt="%A" -->
     

     %a    is replaced by national representation of the abbreviated weekday
           name, where the abbreviation is the first three characters.
     <!--#config timefmt="%a" -->
     

     %B    is replaced by national representation of the full month name.
     <!--#config timefmt="%B" -->
     

     %b    is replaced by national representation of the abbreviated month
     <!--#config timefmt="%b" -->
     
           name, where the abbreviation is the first three characters.

     %C    is replaced by (year / 100) as decimal number; single digits are
           preceded by a zero.
     <!--#config timefmt="%C" -->
     

     %c    is replaced by national representation of time and date (the format
           is similar with produced by asctime(3)).
     <!--#config timefmt="%c" -->
     

     %D    is equivalent to ``%m/%d/%y''.
     <!--#config timefmt="%D" -->
     

     %d    is replaced by the day of the month as a decimal number (01-31).
     <!--#config timefmt="%d" -->
     

     %e    is replaced by the day of month as a decimal number (1-31); single
           digits are preceded by a blank.
     <!--#config timefmt="%e" -->
     

     %H    is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number
           (00-23).
     <!--#config timefmt="%H" -->
     

     %h    the same as %b.
     <!--#config timefmt="%h" -->
     

     %I    is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number
           (01-12).
     <!--#config timefmt="%I" -->
     


     %j    is replaced by the day of the year as a decimal number (001-366).
     <!--#config timefmt="%j" -->
     

     %k    is replaced by the hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (0-23);
     <!--#config timefmt="%k" -->
     

     %l    is replaced by the hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (1-12);
           single digits are preceded by a blank.
     <!--#config timefmt="%l" -->
     

     %M    is replaced by the minute as a decimal number (00-59).
     <!--#config timefmt="%M" -->
     

     %m    is replaced by the month as a decimal number (01-12).
     <!--#config timefmt="%m" -->
     

     %n    is replaced by a newline.

     %p    is replaced by national representation of either "ante meridiem" or
           "post meridiem" as appropriate.
     <!--#config timefmt="%p" -->
     

     %R    is equivalent to ``%H:%M''.
     <!--#config timefmt="%R" -->
     

     %r    is equivalent to ``%I:%M:%S %p''.
     <!--#config timefmt="%A" -->
     

     %S    is replaced by the second as a decimal number (00-60).
     <!--#config timefmt="%S" -->
     

     %s    is replaced by the number of seconds since the Epoch, UTC (see
           mktime(3)).
     <!--#config timefmt="%s" -->
     

     %T    is equivalent to ``%H:%M:%S''.
     <!--#config timefmt="%T" -->
     

     %t    is replaced by a tab.

     %U    is replaced by the week number of the year (Sunday as the first day
           of the week) as a decimal number (00-53).
     <!--#config timefmt="%A" -->
     

     %u    is replaced by the weekday (Monday as the first day of the week) as
           a decimal number (1-7).
     <!--#config timefmt="%u" -->
     

     %V    is replaced by the week number of the year (the first Monday as the
           first day of week 1) as a decimal number (01-53).
     <!--#config timefmt="%V" -->
     

     %v    is equivalent to ``%e-%b-%Y''.
     <!--#config timefmt="%v" -->
     

     %W    is replaced by the week number of the year (Monday as the first day
           of the week) as a decimal number (00-53).
     <!--#config timefmt="%W" -->
     

     %w    is replaced by the weekday (Sunday as the first day of the week) as
           a decimal number (0-6).
     <!--#config timefmt="%w" -->
     

     %X    is replaced by national representation of the time.
     <!--#config timefmt="%X" -->
     

     %x    is replaced by national representation of the date.
     <!--#config timefmt="%x" -->
     

     %Y    is replaced by the year with century as a decimal number.
     <!--#config timefmt="%Y" -->
     

     %y    is replaced by the year without century as a decimal number
           (00-99).
     <!--#config timefmt="%y" -->
     

     %Z    is replaced by the time zone name.
     <!--#config timefmt="%Z" -->
     

     %+    is replaced by national representation of the date and time (the
           format is similar with produced by date(1)).
     <!--#config timefmt="%+" -->
     

     %%    is replaced by `%'.