diff --git a/bash-completion/logger b/bash-completion/logger
index 6b4c7df2c..0a66af309 100644
--- a/bash-completion/logger
+++ b/bash-completion/logger
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ _logger_module()
 	esac
 	case $cur in
 		-*)
-			OPTS="--journald --udp --id --file --help --server --port --priority --stderr --tag --socket --version"
+			OPTS="--journald --udp --id --file --help --server --port --priority --rfc3164 --rfc5424 --stderr --tag --socket --version"
 			COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${OPTS[*]}" -- $cur) )
 			return 0
 			;;
diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.1 b/misc-utils/logger.1
index 35d53c86e..a624f44fb 100644
--- a/misc-utils/logger.1
+++ b/misc-utils/logger.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Section on valid facility and level strings added by
 .\" and1000@debian.org, 26 Oct 1997.
-.TH LOGGER "1" "April 2013" "util-linux" "User Commands"
+.TH LOGGER "1" "June 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 logger \- a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -104,6 +104,32 @@ specified by the \fB\-p\fR option.  Similarly, if no prefix is provided,
 the line is logged using the \fB\-p\fR \fIpriority\fR.
 
 This option doesn't affect a command-line message.
+
+.TP
+\fB\-\-rfc3164\fR
+Use RFC 3164 BSD syslog protocol to submit messages to remote server.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-rfc5424\fR [\fInotime\fR,\fInotq\fR,\fInohost\fR]
+Use RFC 5424 syslog protocol to submit messages to remote server.
+Optional argument
+.I notime
+will supress submission of sender time stamp that is in ISO-8601 format,
+including microseconds and timezone.  When
+.I notime
+is specified the time quality structured data, that can be suppressed
+separately with
+.IR notq ,
+is excluded from output.  The time quality information tells if local
+clock was syncronized, and maximum number of microseconds the time stamp
+could be off.  Option argument
+.I nohost
+will suppress
+.IR gethostname (2)
+information from message header.
+.IP
+The rfc5424 protocol has been default for
+.B logger
+since version 2.26.
 .TP
 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-stderr\fR
 Output the message to standard error as well as to the system log.