diff --git a/reference/datetime/constants.xml b/reference/datetime/constants.xml
index e97ac0bd2a..b03b879abe 100755
--- a/reference/datetime/constants.xml
+++ b/reference/datetime/constants.xml
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
 <section id="datetime.constants">
  &reftitle.constants;
  <para>
   The following constants are defined since PHP 5.1.0 and they offer standard
   date representations, which can be used along with the date format functions
-  (like <function>date</function>).
+  (like <function>date</function>). These are static constants of the
+  <classname>date</classname> class.
  </para>
  <variablelist>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_ATOM</constant>
+    <constant>date::ATOM</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_COOKIE</constant>
+    <constant>date::COOKIE</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_ISO8601</constant>
+    <constant>date::ISO8601</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_RFC822</constant>
+    <constant>date::RFC822</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_RFC850</constant>
+    <constant>date::RFC850</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_RFC1036</constant>
+    <constant>date::RFC1036</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_RFC1123</constant>
+    <constant>date::RFC1123</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_RFC2822</constant>
+    <constant>date::RFC2822</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_RSS</constant>
+    <constant>date::RSS</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>
-    <constant>DATE_W3C</constant>
+    <constant>date::W3C</constant>
      (<type>string</type>)
    </term>
    <listitem>
diff --git a/reference/datetime/functions/date.xml b/reference/datetime/functions/date.xml
index ba55f370b7..8b1d98dfb7 100644
--- a/reference/datetime/functions/date.xml
+++ b/reference/datetime/functions/date.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.25 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.26 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/datetime.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
 <refentry id="function.date">
  <refnamediv>
@@ -312,10 +312,10 @@ echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
 
 /* use the constants in the format parameter */
 // prints something like: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:12:46 UTC
-echo date(DATE_RFC822);
+echo date(date::RFC822);
 
 // prints something like: 2000-07-01T00:00:00+0000
-echo date(DATE_ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
+echo date(date::ATOM, mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));
 ?>
 ]]>
     </programlisting>