diff --git a/man7/time.7 b/man7/time.7
index fd7346d44..67556f369 100644
--- a/man7/time.7
+++ b/man7/time.7
@@ -73,10 +73,6 @@ starting with with 2.6.0, HZ was raised to 1000, giving a jiffy of
 0.001 seconds; since kernel 2.6.13, the HZ value is a kernel
 configuration parameter and can be 100, 250 (the default) or 1000,
 yielding a jiffies value of, respectively, 0.01, 0.004, or 0.001 seconds.
-
-On Alpha and ia64,
-.I HZ
-is 1024.
 .SS "The Epoch"
 Unix systems represent time in seconds since the
 .IR Epoch ,