diff --git a/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1 b/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1
index b340ed9d67c1..1c4224e5f1b5 100644
--- a/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1
+++ b/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)gprof.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd October 7, 2005
+.Dd December 25, 2008
 .Dt GPROF 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -263,9 +263,6 @@ inside other functions.
 .It Fl z
 Display routines that have zero usage (as shown by call counts
 and accumulated time).
-This is useful with the
-.Fl c
-option for discovering which routines were never called.
 .El
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width a.out.gmon -compact