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diff --git a/doc/parse-datetime.texi b/doc/parse-datetime.texi
index b0a8340bb..2f1ab34ec 100644
--- a/doc/parse-datetime.texi
+++ b/doc/parse-datetime.texi
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 @c GNU date syntax documentation
 
-@c Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-@c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1994-2006, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -543,15 +542,19 @@ libc, The GNU C Library}.
 @cindex MacKenzie, David
 @cindex Meyering, Jim
 @cindex Eggert, Paul
-@code{parse_datetime} was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
+@code{parse_datetime} started life as @code{getdate}, as originally
+implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
 (@email{smb@@research.att.com}) while at the University of North Carolina
 at Chapel Hill.  The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on
 Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz (@email{rsalz@@bbn.com})
 and Jim Berets (@email{jberets@@bbn.com}) in August, 1990.  Various
 revisions for the @sc{gnu} system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering,
-Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{get_date} and
-then to @code{parse_datetime}
-to avoid confusion with the Posix function @code{getdate}.
+Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{get_date} to
+avoid a conflict with the alternative Posix function @code{getdate},
+and a later rename to @code{parse_datetime}.  The Posix function
+@code{getdate} can parse more locale-specific dates using
+@code{strptime}, but relies on an environment variable and external
+file, and lacks the thread-safety of @code{parse_datetime}.
 
 @cindex Pinard, F.
 @cindex Berry, K.