diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 59145f6840c74c303d62d42be2ed87ef3fb95256..c529b5e653f1e3bf24ad0e132edf461f0f37833e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-09-13  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* app/display/gimpdisplayshell-close.c (gimp_time_since): use
+	ngettext for plural forms.
+
 2005-09-13  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* modules/colorsel_cmyk.c: added comments for translators.
diff --git a/app/display/gimpdisplayshell-close.c b/app/display/gimpdisplayshell-close.c
index e5ac22098ae87babf0e5f80d0ad552fcf1576794..cca3c63a2211ebd3a6bb4bf87618c755c6077e56 100644
--- a/app/display/gimpdisplayshell-close.c
+++ b/app/display/gimpdisplayshell-close.c
@@ -274,18 +274,12 @@ gimp_time_since (guint  then)
 
   g_return_val_if_fail (now >= then, NULL);
 
-  if (diff == 1)
-    /* one second, the time period  */
-    return g_strdup (_("second"));
-
+  /* one second, the time period  */
   if (diff < 60)
-    return g_strdup_printf (_("%d seconds"), diff);
+    return g_strdup_printf (ngettext ("second", "%d seconds", diff), diff);
 
   /*  round to the nearest minute  */
   diff = (diff + 30) / 60;
 
-  if (diff == 1)
-    return g_strdup (_("minute"));
-
-  return g_strdup_printf (_("%d minutes"), diff);
+  return g_strdup_printf (ngettext ("minute", "%d minutes", diff), diff);
 }