diff --git a/man3/strptime.3 b/man3/strptime.3
index 4e0fc73da..bde161fc0 100644
--- a/man3/strptime.3
+++ b/man3/strptime.3
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" Modified, aeb, 2001-08-31
 .\" Modified, wharms 2001-11-12, remark on white space and example
 .\"
-.TH STRPTIME 3 2009-12-05 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH STRPTIME 3 2013-12-30 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 strptime \- convert a string representation of time to a time tm structure
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -41,18 +41,47 @@ strptime \- convert a string representation of time to a time tm structure
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR strptime ()
-function is the converse function to
-.BR strftime (3)
-and converts the character string pointed to by
+function is the converse of
+.BR strftime (3);
+it converts the character string pointed to by
 .I s
 to values which are stored in the
-.I tm
+"broken-down time"
 structure pointed to by
 .IR tm ,
 using the format specified by
 .IR format .
-Here
+
+The broken-down time structure
+.I tm
+is defined in
+.IR <time.h>
+as follows:
+.sp
+.in +4n
+.nf
+struct tm {
+    int tm_sec;    /* Seconds (0-60) */
+    int tm_min;    /* Minutes (0-59) */
+    int tm_hour;   /* Hours (0-23) */
+    int tm_mday;   /* Day of the month (1-31) */
+    int tm_mon;    /* Month (0-11) */
+    int tm_year;   /* Year - 1900 */
+    int tm_wday;   /* Day of the week (0-6, Sunday = 0) */
+    int tm_yday;   /* Day in the year (0-365, 1 Jan = 0) */
+    int tm_isdst;  /* Daylight saving time */
+};
+.fi
+.in
+
+For more details on the
+.I tm
+structure, see
+.BR ctime (3).
+
+The
 .I format
+argument
 is a character string that consists of field descriptors and text characters,
 reminiscent of
 .BR scanf (3).
@@ -256,33 +285,6 @@ using the locale's alternative numeric symbols.
 The year (offset from
 .BR %C )
 using the locale's alternative numeric symbols.
-.LP
-The broken-down time structure
-.I tm
-is defined in
-.IR <time.h>
-as follows:
-.sp
-.in +4n
-.nf
-struct tm {
-    int tm_sec;    /* Seconds (0-60) */
-    int tm_min;    /* Minutes (0-59) */
-    int tm_hour;   /* Hours (0-23) */
-    int tm_mday;   /* Day of the month (1-31) */
-    int tm_mon;    /* Month (0-11) */
-    int tm_year;   /* Year - 1900 */
-    int tm_wday;   /* Day of the week (0-6, Sunday = 0) */
-    int tm_yday;   /* Day in the year (0-365, 1 Jan = 0) */
-    int tm_isdst;  /* Daylight saving time */
-};
-.fi
-.in
-
-For more details on the
-.I tm
-structure, see
-.BR ctime (3).
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The return value of the function is a pointer to the first character
 not processed in this function call.