CakePHP find distinct - SELECT DISTINCT syntax for the CakePHP find method

As a CakePHP newbie, I'm spending a lot of time learning how to formulate SQL queries with the CakePHP find function syntax. This morning I need to create a "select distinct" SQL query in CakePHP. Fortunately this wasn't too hard once I figured out how to piece it all together.

In my case, I have a database table named logfile_records, and I wanted to run a SQL "select distinct" query against that table. If I was going to write the query in plain SQL I'd write it like this:

select distinct(date) from logfile_records order by date DESC;

After piecing various CakePHP find function hints together, I was able to create the equivalent query in CakePHP like this:

$results = $this->LogfileRecord->find('all',
    array('fields'=>array('DISTINCT date'), 
          'order'=>array('date DESC'))
);

I'm still trying to figure out how to format all these these arrays in CakePHP to make my code easier to read, but regardless of my formatting, the CakePHP find function shown produces the same SELECT DISTINCT query that I showed as plain SQL above.