diff --git a/README b/README
index 8cc7555..d9d2733 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Please send comments or information to seismo!elsie!ado (with, perhaps,
 carbon copes to cbosgd!mark, seismo!linus!encore!necis!geo, and
 seismo!munnari!kre, who are responsible for any good ideas that show up here).
 
-Historical time zone information has been included here not because it should
+Historical local time information has been included here not because it should
 be part of the standard (or, indeed, anyone's product), but rather to:
 
 *	give people an idea of the variety of local time rules that have