1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el
index 2aca26cf166..c9e3fbe4f7d 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ TIME should be one of:
 - a string giving today's time like \"11:23pm\"
   (the acceptable formats are HHMM, H:MM, HH:MM, HHam, HHAM,
   HHpm, HHPM, HH:MMam, HH:MMAM, HH:MMpm, or HH:MMPM;
-  a period '.' can be used instead of a colon ':' to separate
+  a period `.' can be used instead of a colon `:' to separate
   the hour and minute parts);
 - a string giving a relative time like \"90\" or \"2 hours 35 minutes\"
   (the acceptable forms are a number of seconds without units