diff --git a/en/advocacy/myths.sgml b/en/advocacy/myths.sgml
index 513ae1ccf5..2a29cad259 100644
--- a/en/advocacy/myths.sgml
+++ b/en/advocacy/myths.sgml
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
     <h3><a name="aout">*BSD</a> uses the a.out executable format, which is
       outdated technology</h3>
 
-        <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> Until recently (September 1998) FreeBSD used the a.out
+        <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> Quite a while ago (before 1998) FreeBSD used the a.out
           format by default. There were no pressing reasons to switch earlier. In
           particular, FreeBSD did not (and does not) have the problems building
           shared libraries that spurred the Linux conversion from a.out to ELF. As