diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -1565,9 +1565,7 @@
    time. (The effect is similar to running the Unix program :program:`touch` on
    the path.)  Otherwise, *times* must be a 2-tuple of numbers, of the form
    ``(atime, mtime)`` which is used to set the access and modified times,
-   respectively. Whether a directory can be given for *path* depends on whether
-   the operating system implements directories as files (for example, Windows
-   does not).  Note that the exact times you set here may not be returned by a
+   respectively. Note that the exact times you set here may not be returned by a
    subsequent :func:`~os.stat` call, depending on the resolution with which your
    operating system records access and modification times; see :func:`~os.stat`.