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diff --git a/share/man/man4/udcf.4 b/share/man/man4/udcf.4
index 90e3a9d747c..8ff7d320a6f 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/udcf.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/udcf.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: udcf.4,v 1.12 2006/10/11 13:23:45 mbalmer Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: udcf.4,v 1.13 2006/10/27 11:29:06 mbalmer Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Marc Balmer <mbalmer@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -54,16 +54,16 @@ The quality of the timedelta is reported as the sensor status:
.It UNKNOWN
No valid time information has been received yet.
.It OK
-The time information is valid and the receiver is fully synchronized to the
-time signal station.
-The timedelta is safe to use for applications like
+The time information is valid and the timedelta is safe to use for
+applications like
.Xr ntpd 8 .
.It WARN
-The time information is valid, but there has been a reception or parity error.
-The sensor value is adjusted using the local clock for at most 15 minutes.
+The time information is still valid, but no new time information has been
+decoded for at least 5 minutes due to a reception or parity error.
The timedelta should be used with care.
.It CRITICAL
-No valid time information has been received for more than 15 minutes.
+No valid time information has been received for more than 15 minutes since
+the sensor state degraded from OK to WARN.
This is an indication that hardware should be checked
to see if it is still functional.
The timedelta will eventually degrade to a lie