diff --git a/man/remind.1 b/man/remind.1
index f2f08e6c..b5b0be24 100644
--- a/man/remind.1
+++ b/man/remind.1
@@ -1292,6 +1292,14 @@ must create an \fBOMIT\fR command for each year.  (Later, in the
 description of expressions and some of the more advanced features of
 \fBRemind\fR, you will see how to automate this for some cases.)
 .PP
+As with the REM command, you can use shorthand specifiers for dates;
+the following are equivalent:
+.PP
+.nf
+	OMIT 7 Sep 1992
+	OMIT 1992-09-07
+.fi
+.PP
 For convenience, you can use a \fIdelta\fR and \fBMSG\fR or \fBRUN\fR
 keyword in the \fBOMIT\fR command.  The following sequences are exactly
 equivalent: