rdate: tweak comments, no code changes

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/rdate.c b/util-linux/rdate.c
index 66b877e24..14ce591e9 100644
--- a/util-linux/rdate.c
+++ b/util-linux/rdate.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static time_t askremotedate(const char *host)
         uint32_t nett;
         int fd;
 
-        /* Add a timeout for dead or inaccessible servers */
+        /* Timeout for dead or inaccessible servers */
         alarm(10);
         signal(SIGALRM, socket_timeout);
 
@@ -53,9 +53,8 @@ static time_t askremotedate(const char *host)
                 close(fd);
 
         /* Convert from network byte order to local byte order.
-         * RFC 868 time is the number of seconds
-         * since 00:00 (midnight) 1 January 1900 GMT
-         * the RFC 868 time 2,208,988,800 corresponds to 00:00  1 Jan 1970 GMT
+         * RFC 868 time is seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00 GMT.
+         * RFC 868 time 2,208,988,800 corresponds to 1970-01-01 00:00 GMT.
          * Subtract the RFC 868 time to get Linux epoch.
          */
         nett = ntohl(nett) - RFC_868_BIAS;
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ static time_t askremotedate(const char *host)
                  * current time  cur = 0x123ffffffff.
                  * Assuming our time is not some 40 years off,
                  * remote time must be 0x12400000001.
-                 * Need to adjust out time by (int32_t)(nett - cur).
+                 * Need to adjust our time by (int32_t)(nett - cur).
                  */
                 time_t cur = time(NULL);
                 int32_t adjust = (int32_t)(nett - (uint32_t)cur);