Hi aspiringpro,
Thank you for your post.
Here, your problem is how i can display the right information in the content view, not in the form view.
If a user save an article without setting a title then Joomla set title as the current date and time. I suggest to have "article title" field as a text field. I suggest also to hide article title in the form view.
If you would like to display value as "10/31/13 Nightly News", i advise you to use "Article created" field. After that, you should define a custom variation. In this variation, you should get the value of this field as:
$date = cck->getValue('art_created');
You will have value as for example
2013-11-10 10:51:00.
With PHP, you can compute if this time is in the night or not.
PS : I insist, your problem is not in the form but in terms of the date display
Regards,
Mehdi.