diff --git a/lib/README.ares b/lib/README.ares
index c20b2505e..402d6afdf 100644
--- a/lib/README.ares
+++ b/lib/README.ares
@@ -62,16 +62,6 @@ other projects adig/ahost seem to fail under MSVC).
 Next was libcurl. I opened lib/config-win32.h and I added a:
  #define USE_ARES 1
 
-Next thing I added was, near the HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY checks I added:
-#ifdef USE_ARES
-#define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY 1
-#endif
-
-The reason is, it seems curl-ares has a gettimeofday function in it (perhaps
-this should be made static in ares to avoid this kludge?) To prevent a
-duplicate symbol error, I had to make sure libcurl didn't also try and create
-a gettimeofday() function.
-
 Next thing I did was I added the path for the ares includes to the include
 path, and the libares.lib to the libraries.