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@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ If the buffer has no recorded last modification time, this function
returns zero. This case occurs, for instance, if the buffer is not
visiting a file or if the time has been explicitly cleared by
@code{clear-visited-file-modtime}. Note, however, that
-@code{visited-file-modtime} returns a list for some non-file buffers
+@code{visited-file-modtime} returns a timestamp for some non-file buffers
too. For instance, in a Dired buffer listing a directory, it returns
the last modification time of that directory, as recorded by Dired.