diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index d94bd0bca653eb7d9e62dc596c472367f4fd0286..b99a5467b4d202088a8ecf96f7c250acda5f446c 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.12.2
 
 This release includes the following changes:
 
- o 
+ o curl_getdate() completely rewritten, which may affect curl -z use cases.
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index a8040109a147bfaa0bfc8b150bd8fd9d21cbbef9..d3a87fc9b11c96350bf91e9abe4975e89c5dc07f 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -976,15 +976,11 @@ not set.
 
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-z/--time-cond <date expression>"
-(HTTP)
-Request to get a file that has been modified later than the given time and
+(HTTP) Request a file that has been modified later than the given time and
 date, or one that has been modified before that time. The date expression can
 be all sorts of date strings or if it doesn't match any internal ones, it
 tries to get the time from a given file name instead! See the
-.BR "GNU date(1)"
-or
-.BR "curl_getdate(3)"
-man pages for date expression details.
+\fIcurl_getdate(3)\fP man pages for date expression details.
 
 Start the date expression with a dash (-) to make it request for a document
 that is older than the given date/time, default is a document that is newer