diff --git a/man2/futimesat.2 b/man2/futimesat.2
index 8297fb0e3..0df2cb3ac 100644
--- a/man2/futimesat.2
+++ b/man2/futimesat.2
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
 .\"
 .\"
-.TH FUTIMESAT 2 2006-05-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FUTIMESAT 2 2008-06-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 futimesat \- change timestamps of a file relative to a \
 directory file descriptor
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ directory file descriptor
 .BI "              const struct timeval " times [2]);
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
+This system call is obsolete.
+Use
+.BR utimensat (2)
+instead.
+
 The
 .BR futimesat ()
 system call operates in exactly the same way as
@@ -97,8 +102,11 @@ is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory.
 .BR futimesat ()
 was added to Linux in kernel 2.6.16.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
-This system call is non-standard but is proposed
-for inclusion in a future revision of POSIX.1.
+This system call is non-standard.
+It was implemented from a specification that was proposed POSIX.1,
+but that specification was replaced by the one for
+.BR utimensat(2).
+
 A similar system call exists on Solaris.
 .SH NOTES
 .SS Glibc Notes
@@ -111,6 +119,7 @@ wrapper function updates the times for the file referred to by
 .\" The Solaris futimesat() also has this strangeness.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR stat (2),
+.BR utimensat (2),
 .BR utimes (2),
 .BR futimes (3),
 .BR path_resolution (7)