can anybody help me on this its urgent

i have a script named date1 with its content as follows:

echo "enter date:\c"
read date

if [ -z "$date" ]
then
echo "Please enter the date"
fi


now when the run the script and enter the date in say

05032009

then i want to print o/p as

05 March 2009

how do i do this

thanks,
haris