diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.txt b/docs/intro/overview.txt
index 8314b3d351..6ecfd5fffd 100644
--- a/docs/intro/overview.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/overview.txt
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Design your URLs
 
 A clean, elegant URL scheme is an important detail in a high-quality web
 application. Django encourages beautiful URL design and doesn't put any cruft
-in URLs, like ``.php`` or ``.asp``.
+in URLs.
 
 To design URLs for an app, you create a Python module called a :doc:`URLconf
 </topics/http/urls>`. A table of contents for your app, it contains a mapping
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ lookup and function calls.
 Note ``{{ article.pub_date|date:"F j, Y" }}`` uses a Unix-style "pipe" (the "|"
 character). This is called a template filter, and it's a way to filter the value
 of a variable. In this case, the date filter formats a Python datetime object in
-the given format (as found in PHP's date function).
+the given format.
 
 You can chain together as many filters as you'd like. You can write :ref:`custom
 template filters <howto-writing-custom-template-filters>`. You can write
diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index 4cfd1d8f71..be6c66e319 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -1597,13 +1597,8 @@ If ``value`` is ``"String with spaces"``, the output will be
 
 Formats a date according to the given format.
 
-Uses a similar format to PHP's `date()
-<https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php>`_ function with some
-differences.
-
 .. note::
-    These format characters are not used in Django outside of templates. They
-    were designed to be compatible with PHP to ease transitioning for designers.
+    These format characters are not used in Django outside of templates.
 
 .. _date-and-time-formatting-specifiers:
 
@@ -1657,10 +1652,7 @@ Format character  Description                               Example output
 ``i``             Minutes.                                  ``'00'`` to ``'59'``
 ``s``             Seconds, 2 digits with leading zeros.     ``'00'`` to ``'59'``
 ``u``             Microseconds.                             ``000000`` to ``999999``
-``a``             ``'a.m.'`` or ``'p.m.'`` (Note that       ``'a.m.'``
-                  this is slightly different than PHP's
-                  output, because this includes periods
-                  to match Associated Press style.)
+``a``             ``'a.m.'`` or ``'p.m.'``.
 ``A``             ``'AM'`` or ``'PM'``.                     ``'AM'``
 ``f``             Time, in 12-hour hours and minutes,       ``'1'``, ``'1:30'``
                   with minutes left off if they're zero.
diff --git a/docs/topics/http/sessions.txt b/docs/topics/http/sessions.txt
index e670292ca8..b5cf4f596c 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/sessions.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/sessions.txt
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ Session IDs in URLs
 ===================
 
 The Django sessions framework is entirely, and solely, cookie-based. It does
-not fall back to putting session IDs in URLs as a last resort, as PHP does.
+not fall back to putting session IDs in URLs as a last resort.
 This is an intentional design decision. Not only does that behavior make URLs
 ugly, it makes your site vulnerable to session-ID theft via the "Referer"
 header.