diff --git a/man2/getitimer.2 b/man2/getitimer.2
index c28571668..bf5537398 100644
--- a/man2/getitimer.2
+++ b/man2/getitimer.2
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct timeval {
 .PD
 .LP
 The function
-.B getitimer
+.BR getitimer ()
 fills the structure indicated by
 .I value
 with the current setting for the timer indicated by
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ is disabled.  Similarly,
 .I it_interval
 is set to the reset value.
 The function
-.B setitimer
+.BR setitimer ()
 sets the indicated timer to the value in
 .IR value .
 If
@@ -162,13 +162,13 @@ On Linux 2.6 on x86 (where a jiffy is 0.001 seconds),
 this means that the ceiling value for a timer is
 approximately 24.86 days.
 
-On certain systems (including x86), the Linux kernel has a bug which will
-produce premature timer expirations of up to one jiffy under some
-circumstances.
-.\" As at June 2005, the above holds in 2.4.x and 2.6.x (e.g., 2.6.12.)
+On certain systems (including x86),
+Linux kernels before version 2.6.12 have a bug which will produce 
+premature timer expirations of up to one jiffy under some circumstances.
+This bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.12.
 
 POSIX.1 says that
-.B setitimer
+.BR setitimer ()
 should fail if a
 .I tv_usec
 value is specified that is outside of the range 0 to 999999.