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@@ -391,6 +391,11 @@ Replace all occurences of the search string with the replacement string.
 
 e.g. `{{ replace "Batman and Robin" "Robin" "Catwoman" }}` → "Batman and Catwoman"
 
+### dateFormat
+Converts the textual representation of the datetime into the other form or returns it of Go `time.Time` type value. These are formatted with the layout string.
+
+e.g. `{{ dateFormat "Monday, Jan 2, 2006" "2015-01-21" }}` →"Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015"
+
 ### highlight
 Take a string of code and a language, uses Pygments to return the syntax highlighted code in HTML. Used in the [highlight shortcode](/extras/highlighting).