diff --git a/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc b/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
index b325fcf5549cc..936bd8e198c72 100644
--- a/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
@@ -198,13 +198,11 @@ POST hockey/player/1/_update
 ==== Dates
 
 Date fields are exposed as
-`ReadableDateTime` or
-so they support methods like
-`getYear`,
-and `getDayOfWeek`.
-To get milliseconds since epoch call
-`getMillis`.
-For example, the following returns every hockey player's birth year:
+`ReadableDateTime`, so they support methods like `getYear`, `getDayOfWeek` 
+or e.g. getting milliseconds since epoch with `getMillis`. To use these
+in a script, leave out the `get` prefix and continue with lowercasing the
+rest of the method name. For example, the following returns every hockey 
+player's birth year:
 
 [source,js]
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