hwclock: cosmetic changes to man page

Reported-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
index 79c79077d..96c57d4a0 100644
--- a/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
+++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.8.in
@@ -767,20 +767,21 @@ network or to a radio clock hooked up to your system.  See RFC 1305.)
 .PP
 If the kernel is compiled with the \%'11\ minute\ mode' option it will
 be active when the kernel's clock discipline is in a synchronized state.
-When in this state the binary 64's bit of the kernel's
+When in this state, bit 6 (the bit that is set in the mask 0x0040)
+of the kernel's
 .I \%time_status
-variable is unset (10111111). This value is output as the 'status' line of the
+variable is unset. This value is output as the 'status' line of the
 .BR \%adjtimex\ --print " or " \%ntptime " commands."
 .PP
 It takes an outside influence, like the NTP daemon
 .BR ntpd (1),
 to put the kernel's clock discipline into a synchronized state, and
 therefore turn on \%'11\ minute\ mode'.
-It can be turned off by running anything, including
-.BR \%hwclock\ \-\-hctosys ,
-that sets the System Clock the old fashioned way.  However, if the NTP daemon is
-still running, it will turn \%'11\ minute\ mode' back on again the next time it
-synchronizes the System Clock.
+It can be turned off by running anything that sets the System Clock the old
+fashioned way, including
+.BR "\%hwclock\ \-\-hctosys" .
+However, if the NTP daemon is still running, it will turn \%'11\ minute\ mode'
+back on again the next time it synchronizes the System Clock.
 .PP
 If your system runs with \%'11\ minute\ mode' on, it may need to use either
 .BR \%\-\-hctosys " or " \%\-\-systz