diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 35c9eed59..02ff63c96 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 .\" 2005-07-28, mtk, Added descriptions of RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
 .\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME
 .\"
-.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-10-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2010-09-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getrlimit, setrlimit \- get/set resource limits
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -310,7 +310,8 @@ and
 .BR sched_setparam (2).
 .TP
 .BR RLIMIT_RTTIME " (Since Linux 2.6.25)"
-Specifies a limit on the amount of CPU time that a process scheduled
+Specifies a limit (in microseconds)
+on the amount of CPU time that a process scheduled
 under a real-time scheduling policy may consume without making a blocking
 system call.
 For the purpose of this limit,