diff --git a/man2/utime.2 b/man2/utime.2
index 413a6a24c..5fcd87269 100644
--- a/man2/utime.2
+++ b/man2/utime.2
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
 .\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\" Modified 2004-10-10 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
 .\"
-.TH UTIME 2 2007-07-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH UTIME 2 2008-03-18 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-utime, utimes \- change access and/or modification times of an inode
+utime, utimes \- change file last access and modification times
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .B #include <sys/types.h>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ If
 is NULL, then the access and modification times of the file are set
 to the current time.
 
-Changing time stamps is permitted when: either
+Changing timestamps is permitted when: either
 the process has appropriate privileges (Linux: has the
 .B CAP_FOWNER
 capability), or the effective user ID equals the user ID
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct utimbuf {
 
 The function
 .BR utime ()
-allows specification of time stamps with a resolution of 1 second.
+allows specification of timestamps with a resolution of 1 second.
 .SS utimes()
 The function
 .BR utimes ()
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ the path prefix of
 .BR path_resolution (7)),
 or
 .I buf
-is NULL and the process does not have permission to change the time stamps
+is NULL and the process does not have permission to change the timestamps
 (see above).
 .TP
 .B ENOENT
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ does not exist.
 .TP
 .B EPERM
 .I buf
-is not NULL and the process does not have permission to change the time stamps.
+is not NULL and the process does not have permission to change the timestamps.
 .TP
 .B EROFS
 .I path
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
 .BR utimes ():
 4.3BSD
 .SH NOTES
-Linux does not allow changing the time stamps on an immutable file,
-or setting the time stamps to something other than the current time
+Linux does not allow changing the timestamps on an immutable file,
+or setting the timestamps to something other than the current time
 on an append-only file.
 
 In libc4 and libc5,
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ POSIX.1-2001 marks
 legacy, which is strange since it provides more functionality than
 .BR utime ().
 .\" FIXME . SUSv4 may remove the legacy marking.
+.\" POSIX.1-2008 reverses things, removing the LEGACY marking for
+.\" utimes() and marking utime() OBSOLESCENT.
 .SH BUGS
 Linux is not careful to distinguish between the
 .B EACCES