diff --git a/docs/examples/synctime.c b/docs/examples/synctime.c
index c9565d4af547c7..cd7d0731be498b 100644
--- a/docs/examples/synctime.c
+++ b/docs/examples/synctime.c
@@ -92,8 +92,7 @@
 #define MAX_STRING              256
 #define MAX_STRING1             MAX_STRING+1
 
-/* Trick Webserver by claiming that you are using Microsoft WinXP SP2, IE8 */
-/* #define UA "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" */
+#define SYNCTIME_UA "synctime/1.0"
 
 typedef struct
 {
@@ -188,8 +187,8 @@ void SyncTime_CURL_Init(CURL *curl, char *proxy_port,
   if (strlen(proxy_user_password) > 0)
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, proxy_user_password);
 
-#ifdef UA
-  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, UA);
+#ifdef SYNCTIME_UA
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, SYNCTIME_UA);
 #endif
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, *SyncTime_CURL_WriteOutput);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, *SyncTime_CURL_WriteHeader);