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diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt
index 37c9e2c7b..a002085aa 100644
--- a/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt
+++ b/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 lttng-enable-rotation(1)
 ========================
+:revdate: 13 November 2018
 
 
 NAME
@@ -32,14 +33,18 @@ without a unit suffix).
 
 For both option:--timer and option:--size options, LTTng checks the
 schedule condition periodically using the monitor timers of the tracing
-session's channels. This means that, with the option:--timer option, the
-automatic rotation can occur when the elapsed time since the last
-automatic rotation is greater than 'PERIOD', and with the option:--size
-option, the automatic rotation can occur when the size of the flushed
-part of the current trace chunk is greater than 'SIZE'. Therefore the
-'PERIOD' and 'SIZE' arguments are approximations. See the
-nloption:--monitor-timer option in man:lttng-enable-channel(1) for more
-information about the monitor timer.
+session's channels (see the nloption:--monitor-timer option of the
+man:lttng-enable-channel(1) command). This means that:
+
+* With the option:--timer option, the automatic rotation can occur when
+  the elapsed time since the last automatic rotation is slightly greater
+  than 'PERIOD'. The exact precision is governed by the monitor timer's
+  precision, which relies on the precision of the platform's
+  implementation of POSIX timers.
+
+* With the option:--size option, the automatic rotation can occur when
+  the size of the flushed part of the current trace chunk is greater
+  than 'SIZE'.
 
 You can combine the option:--timer and option:--size options.