diff --git a/doc/api/next_api_changes/2018-01-30-AL.rst b/doc/api/next_api_changes/2018-01-30-AL.rst
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-Minor Locator no longer try to avoid overstriking major Locators
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+Minor ticks that collide with major ticks are always hidden
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 Previously, certain locator classes (`LogLocator`, `AutoMinorLocator`)
 contained custom logic to avoid emitting tick locations that collided with
 major ticks when they were used as minor locators.
 
-This logic has now moved to the Axis class; thus, for example,
-``xaxis.minor.locator()`` now includes positions that collide with
-``xaxis.major.locator()``, but ``xaxis.get_minorticklocs()`` does not.
+This logic has now moved to the Axis class, and is used *regardless of the
+ticker class*.  ``xaxis.minor.locator()`` now includes positions that collide
+with ``xaxis.major.locator()``, but ``xaxis.get_minorticklocs()`` does not.
+
+If you were relying on both the major and minor tick labels to appear on the
+same tick, you may need to update your code.  For example, the following
+snippet labeled days using major ticks, and hours and minutes using minor
+ticks::
+
+    import numpy as np
+    import matplotlib.dates as mdates
+    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+    t = np.arange("2018-11-03", "2018-11-06", dtype="datetime64")
+    x = np.random.rand(len(t))
+
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
+    ax.plot(t, x)
+    ax.xaxis.set(
+        major_locator=mdates.DayLocator(),
+        major_formatter=mdates.DateFormatter("\n%a"),
+        minor_locator=mdates.HourLocator((0, 6, 12, 18)),
+        minor_formatter=mdates.DateFormatter("%H:%M"),
+    )
+
+    plt.show()
+
+and added a newline to the major ticks labels to avoid them crashing into the
+minor tick labels.
+
+With the API change, the major tick labels should also include hours and
+minutes, as the minor ticks are gone, so the ``major_formatter`` should be
+``mdates.DateFormatter("%H:%M\n%a")``.