diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 212cd69bb0..9ff0601f8e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Oct  7 20:29:31 2013  Zachary Scott  <e@zzak.io>
+
+	* lib/time.rb: [DOC] typo in Time.rb overview by @srt32 [Fixes GH-416]
+	  https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/416
+
 Mon Oct  7 20:07:20 2013  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* lib/time.rb (Time.strptime): Use :offset.
diff --git a/lib/time.rb b/lib/time.rb
index 4474f275be..2b3ebd1b40 100644
--- a/lib/time.rb
+++ b/lib/time.rb
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ require 'date'
 #
 # #strptime works similar to +parse+ except that instead of using a heuristic
 # to detect the format of the input string, you provide a second argument that
-# is describes the format of the string. For example:
+# describes the format of the string. For example:
 #
 #   Time.strptime("2000-10-31", "%Y-%m-%d") #=> 2000-10-31 00:00:00 -0500