diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4732bd9..a670f8a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ per-file diff commands.
   grep -rn '\\cventry{[^}]*--' cv/
   ```
 
-  Verify afterwards with `pdftotext -layout <file>.pdf - | grep -c '�'`, which should
-  return `0`.
+  Verify afterwards by extracting the text layer and checking the date lines specifically:
+  `pdftotext -layout <file>.pdf - | grep '�'` - none of the hits may be a date field. (On
+  the stock template two benign hits remain either way: the decorative separators on the
+  contact and award lines, which are unrelated to dates and predate this fix.)
 
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