diff --git a/reference/datetime/functions/gmdate.xml b/reference/datetime/functions/gmdate.xml
index 39ef342d8a..a629984cf4 100644
--- a/reference/datetime/functions/gmdate.xml
+++ b/reference/datetime/functions/gmdate.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/datetime.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.gmdate">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ echo gmdate ("M d Y H:i:s", mktime (0,0,0,1,1,1998));
       and <ulink url="&url.php.bugs;14391">#14391</ulink>.
      </para>
      <para>
-      This problem does not occur in Unix/Linux Operating Systems, were the system 
-      libraries behave as expected.
+      This problem does not occur in Unix/Linux Operating Systems, as the
+      system libraries behave as expected.
      </para>
      <para>
       PHP cannot fix broken system libraries. Contact