diff --git a/reference/datetime/functions/date.xml b/reference/datetime/functions/date.xml
index 5e5eebe2c2..91beb95159 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: 1.41 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.42 $ -->
 <refentry xml:id="function.date" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>date</refname>
@@ -369,8 +369,8 @@ date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
 // Prints something like: Monday
 echo date("l");
 
-// Prints something like: Monday 15th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
-echo date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');
+// Prints something like: Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM
+echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');
 
 // Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday
 echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000));