diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 16ed3215bc2c1a..060286f152364a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -2640,7 +2640,28 @@ Broadly speaking, ``d.strftime(fmt)`` acts like the :mod:`time` module's
 
 For the :meth:`.datetime.strptime` class method, the default value is
 ``1900-01-01T00:00:00.000``: any components not specified in the format string
-will be pulled from the default value. [#]_
+will be pulled from the default value.
+
+.. note::
+   When used to parse partial dates lacking a year, :meth:`~.datetime.strptime`
+   will raise when encountering February 29 because its default year of 1900 is
+   *not* a leap year.  Always add a default leap year to partial date strings
+   before parsing.
+
+.. doctest::
+
+    >>> from datetime import datetime
+    >>> import warnings
+    >>> value = "2/29"
+    >>> with warnings.catch_warnings():
+    ...     warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+    ...     datetime.strptime(value, "%m/%d")
+    ...
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+    ...
+    ValueError: day 29 must be in range 1..28 for month 2 in year 1900
+    >>> datetime.strptime(f"1904 {value}", "%Y %m/%d")
+    datetime.datetime(1904, 2, 29, 0, 0)
 
 Using ``datetime.strptime(date_string, format)`` is equivalent to::
 
@@ -2771,7 +2792,7 @@ Notes:
    include a year in the format.  If the value you need to parse lacks a year,
    append an explicit dummy leap year.  Otherwise your code will raise an
    exception when it encounters leap day because the default year used by the
-   parser is not a leap year.  Users run into this bug every four years...
+   parser (1900) is not a leap year.  Users run into that bug every leap year.
 
    .. doctest::
 
@@ -2798,5 +2819,3 @@ Notes:
 .. [#] See R. H. van Gent's `guide to the mathematics of the ISO 8601 calendar
        <https://web.archive.org/web/20220531051136/https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/calendar/isocalendar.htm>`_
        for a good explanation.
-
-.. [#] Passing ``datetime.strptime('Feb 29', '%b %d')`` will fail since 1900 is not a leap year.