diff --git a/man8/zic.8 b/man8/zic.8
index 774991a40..87ebf31f5 100644
--- a/man8/zic.8
+++ b/man8/zic.8
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ no leap second information appears in output files.
 .B \-v
 Complain if a year that appears in a data file is outside the range
 of years representable by
-.IR time (2)
+.BR time (2)
 values.
 .TP
 .B \-s