When you supply the date on the command-line, permit leaving out the year, which defaults to this year in that case.

april-fools-announcements/2026-april-fool-announcement.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Hi, all,
+
+As you know, Remind has been around for a long time---over 36 years.
+It's written in C, and I think it's high time to rewrite it in a
+memory-safe language.  After all, one CVE in 36 years is simply
+unacceptable.
+
+I was looking at writing it in Rust, but decided that Rust isn't quite
+mature enough yet.  So I decided to do it in FORTAN-77.  I chose
+FORTRAN-77 over the more obvious choice of COBOL because I studied
+engineering and not business.
+
+The rewrite will have the following implications:
+
+o Remind will henceforth be known as REMIND.
+
+o Sadly, I have to drop UTF-8 support.  Your choices are ASCII or
+  EBCDIC.
+
+o All statements must begin in column 7.  That means you might need to
+  edit your existing scripts to add 6 spaces at the beginning of the
+  line.
+
+o Variables whose names begin with "I" through "N" can only hold INTs.
+
+o I will be setting up a store on my web site to sell punched cards.
+  (Yes; those will be needed to run REMIND.)
+
+Now, I confess I haven't programmed in FORTRAN-77 in several decades,
+so I plan on using AI to assist me.  After all, it has been trained on
+the mountains of open-source FORTRAN-77 code on the Internet.
+
+I anticipate the rewrite will take about 9 years.  You can use this
+reminder to alert yourself to when it's ready:
+
+      REM 1 APRIL 2035 MSG REMIND IN FORTRAN-77 READY. STOP.
+
+Regards,
+
+Dianne.

man/remind.1.in

@@ -515,10 +515,12 @@ In other words, \fB\-i\fIvar\fR is exactly the same as \fB\-i\fIvar\fR\fB=\fR0.
 Allows you to define a function on the command line.
 .PP
 If you supply a \fIdate\fR on the command line, it must consist of
-\fIday month year\fR, where \fIday\fR is the day of the month,
+[\fIday\fR] \fImonth\fR [\fIyear\fR], where \fIday\fR is the day of the month,
 \fImonth\fR is at least the first three letters of the English name
 of the month, and \fIyear\fR is a year (all 4 digits) from 1990 to
 about 2075.  You can leave out the \fIday\fR, which then defaults to 1.
+If you leave out the year, then it defaults to the current year.  You
+cannot leave out the \fImonth\fR.
 .PP
 If you do supply a \fIdate\fR on the command line, then \fBRemind\fR
 uses it, rather than the actual system date, as its notion of "today."

src/init.c

@@ -806,16 +806,13 @@ void InitRemind(int argc, char const *argv[])
         if (dse != NO_DATE) {
             FromDSE(dse, &y, &m, &d);
         }
-/* Must supply date in the form:  day, mon, yr OR mon, yr */
+        /* Must supply date in the form:  day, mon, yr OR mon, yr */
         if (m != NO_MON || y != NO_YR || d != NO_DAY) {
-            if (m == NO_MON || y == NO_YR) {
-                if (rep == NO_REP) Usage();
-                else if (m != NO_MON || y != NO_YR) Usage();
-                else {
-                    m = CurMon;
-                    y = CurYear;
-                    if (d == NO_DAY) d = CurDay;
-                }
+            if (y == NO_YR) {
+                y = CurYear;
+            }
+            if (m == NO_MON) {
+                Usage();
             }
             if (d == NO_DAY) d=1;
             if (d > DaysInMonth(m, y)) {