diff --git a/man2/utime.2 b/man2/utime.2
index 49ad9ea20..c36790c18 100644
--- a/man2/utime.2
+++ b/man2/utime.2
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\" Modified 2004-10-10 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
 .\"
-.TH UTIME 2 2008-06-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH UTIME 2 2008-08-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 utime, utimes \- change file last access and modification times
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -162,9 +162,9 @@ resides on a read-only file system.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 .BR utime ():
 SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
-.\" FIXME . Mar 08: The next POSIX.1 revisions marks utime() obsolete.
-.\" SVr4 documents additional error conditions EFAULT,
-.\" EINTR, ELOOP, EMULTIHOP, ENAMETOOLONG, ENOLINK, ENOLINK, ENOTDIR.
+POSIX.1-2008 marks
+.BR utime ()
+as obsolete.
 .br
 .BR utimes ():
 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
@@ -178,14 +178,6 @@ In libc4 and libc5,
 is just a wrapper for
 .BR utime ()
 and hence does not allow a subsecond resolution.
-
-POSIX.1-2001 marks
-.BR utimes ()
-legacy, which is strange since it provides more functionality than
-.BR utime ().
-.\" FIXME .
-.\" POSIX.1-2008 reverses things, removing the LEGACY marking for
-.\" utimes() and marking utime() OBSOLESCENT.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR chattr (1),
 .BR futimesat (2),