diff --git a/recipes/economist.recipe b/recipes/economist.recipe
index 9447fe2193..894f5880b3 100644
--- a/recipes/economist.recipe
+++ b/recipes/economist.recipe
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ class Economist(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
     __author__ = "Kovid Goyal"
     INDEX = 'http://www.economist.com/printedition'
-    description = 'Global news and current affairs from a European perspective.'
+    description = ('Global news and current affairs from a European'
+            ' perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)')
 
     oldest_article = 7.0
     cover_url = 'http://www.economist.com/images/covers/currentcoverus_large.jpg'
diff --git a/recipes/economist_free.recipe b/recipes/economist_free.recipe
index d1766211d7..4f060dc487 100644
--- a/recipes/economist_free.recipe
+++ b/recipes/economist_free.recipe
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ class Economist(BasicNewsRecipe):
     language = 'en'
 
     __author__ = "Kovid Goyal"
-    description = ('Global news and current affairs from a European perspective.'
+    description = ('Global news and current affairs from a European'
+            ' perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT).'
             ' Much slower than the print edition based version.')
 
     oldest_article = 7.0
diff --git a/recipes/financial_times.recipe b/recipes/financial_times.recipe
index 25efc56e45..0e3c91d3e3 100644
--- a/recipes/financial_times.recipe
+++ b/recipes/financial_times.recipe
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 class FinancialTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title                 = u'Financial Times'
     __author__            = 'Darko Miletic and Sujata Raman'
-    description           = 'Financial world news'
+    description           = ('Financial world news. Available after 5AM '
+                                'GMT, daily.')
     oldest_article        = 2
     language = 'en'