diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst
index 8d8b7d4c55e..0a3d9772b35 100644
--- a/Doc/library/time.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/time.rst
@@ -550,9 +550,11 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items:
    +-------+-------------------+---------------------------------+
 
    Note that unlike the C structure, the month value is a range of [1, 12], not
-   [0, 11].  A ``-1`` argument as the daylight
-   savings flag, passed to :func:`mktime` will usually result in the correct
-   daylight savings state to be filled in.
+   [0, 11].
+
+   In calls to :func:`mktime`, :attr:`tm_isdst` may be set to 1 when daylight
+   savings time is in effect, and 0 when it is not.  A value of -1 indicates that
+   this is not known, and will usually result in the correct state being filled in.
 
    When a tuple with an incorrect length is passed to a function expecting a
    :class:`struct_time`, or having elements of the wrong type, a