diff --git a/man3/ecvt.3 b/man3/ecvt.3
index 2f5aaa5bc..789ab2e3b 100644
--- a/man3/ecvt.3
+++ b/man3/ecvt.3
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:40:39 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified Fri Jun 25 12:10:47 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
 .\"
-.TH ECVT 3  2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ECVT 3  2008-08-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 ecvt, fcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -91,7 +91,10 @@ or
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 SVr2;
 marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001.
-.\" FIXME . Mar 08: The next POSIX.1 revision removes ecvt() and fcvt().
+POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
+.BR ecvt ()
+and
+.BR fcvt ().
 .SH NOTES
 These functions are obsolete.
 Instead,