an class="doc">Date Helper</span></a> function <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">standard_date()</span></code> is being deprecated due
to the availability of native PHP <a class="reference external" href="http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.types">constants</a>,
which when combined with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">date()</span></code> provide the same functionality. Furthermore, they have the
exact same names as the ones supported by <code class