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diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
index 5adfb18d2..e332a913f 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ If a timezone is not provided, it will return time() based on "time_reference" s
mdate()
=======
-This function is identical to PHPs `date() <http://www.php.net/date>`_
+This function is identical to PHP's `date() <http://www.php.net/date>`_
function, except that it lets you use MySQL style date codes, where each
code letter is preceded with a percent sign: %Y %m %d etc.
@@ -85,21 +85,28 @@ Example
The first parameter must contain the format, the second parameter must
contain the date as a Unix timestamp.
+.. note:: This function is DEPRECATED. Use the native ``date()`` combined
+ with `DateTime's format constants <http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.types>`_
+ instead:
+
+ |
+ | echo date(DATE_RFC822, time());
+
Supported formats:
=============== ======================= ======================================
Constant Description Example
=============== ======================= ======================================
-DATE_ATOM Atom 2005-08-15T16:13:03+0000
-DATE_COOKIE HTTP Cookies Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC
-DATE_ISO8601 ISO-8601 2005-08-14T16:13:03+00:00
-DATE_RFC822 RFC 822 Sun, 14 Aug 05 16:13:03 UTC
-DATE_RFC850 RFC 850 Sunday, 14-Aug-05 16:13:03 UTC
-DATE_RFC1036 RFC 1036 Sunday, 14-Aug-05 16:13:03 UTC
-DATE_RFC1123 RFC 1123 Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC
-DATE_RFC2822 RFC 2822 Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 +0000
-DATE_RSS RSS Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC
-DATE_W3C W3C 2005-08-14T16:13:03+0000
+DATE_ATOM Atom 2005-08-15T16:13:03+0000
+DATE_COOKIE HTTP Cookies Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC
+DATE_ISO8601 ISO-8601 2005-08-14T16:13:03+00:00
+DATE_RFC822 RFC 822 Sun, 14 Aug 05 16:13:03 UTC
+DATE_RFC850 RFC 850 Sunday, 14-Aug-05 16:13:03 UTC
+DATE_RFC1036 RFC 1036 Sunday, 14-Aug-05 16:13:03 UTC
+DATE_RFC1123 RFC 1123 Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC
+DATE_RFC2822 RFC 2822 Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 +0000
+DATE_RSS RSS Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:13:03 UTC
+DATE_W3C W3C 2005-08-14T16:13:03+0000
=============== ======================= ======================================
local_to_gmt()