diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
index e9492235a0..62f6a18576 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
@@ -6104,7 +6104,8 @@ PLIST_SUB=      OCTAVE_VERSION=${OCTAVE_VERSION}</programlisting>
 		    <entry>502106</entry>
 		  </row>
 		  <row>
-		    <entry>5.2-CURRENT after time_t changes on sparc64.
+		    <entry>5.2-CURRENT after time_t is changed to a
+			64-bit value on sparc64.
 		    </entry>
 		    <entry>502107</entry>
 		  </row>