diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2
index ddf8eb863..33e3ce0d6 100644
--- a/man2/epoll_wait.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" 2007-04-30: mtk, Added description of epoll_pwait()
 .\"
-.TH EPOLL_WAIT 2 2014-01-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH EPOLL_WAIT 2 2014-01-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 epoll_wait, epoll_pwait \- wait for an I/O event on an epoll file descriptor
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ argument must be greater than zero.
 
 The
 .I timeout
-argument specifies the minimum number of milliseconds that
+argument specifies the number of milliseconds that
 .BR epoll_wait ()
 will block.
 (This interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,