diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0b2d346eddf..962e58c8924 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #1777412: minimum year for time.asctime(), time.ctime() and
+  time.strftime() is now: 1000 instead of 1900 by default (accept2dyear=0) and
+  not limited instead of 1900 if accept2dyear=1. With Visual Studio or on
+  Solaris, the year is limited to the range [1; 9999].
+
 - Issue #10859: Make ``contextlib.GeneratorContextManager`` officially
   private by renaming it to ``_GeneratorContextManager``.