diff --git a/source/reference/operator/update/currentDate.txt b/source/reference/operator/update/currentDate.txt
index 7afd2e4c937..93f39fff002 100644
--- a/source/reference/operator/update/currentDate.txt
+++ b/source/reference/operator/update/currentDate.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Consider the following document in the ``users`` collection:
    { _id: 1, status: "a", lastModified: ISODate("2013-10-02T01:11:18.965Z") }
 
 The following operation updates the ``lastModified`` field to the
-current date, the``"cancellation.date"`` field to the current timestamp
+current date, the ``"cancellation.date"`` field to the current timestamp
 as well as updating the ``status`` field to ``"D"`` and the
 ``"cancellation.reason"`` to ``"user request"``.