diff --git a/docs/topics/db/queries.txt b/docs/topics/db/queries.txt
index fcf3a183bb..7bc090f5e7 100644
--- a/docs/topics/db/queries.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/db/queries.txt
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ refinements together. For example::
     ... ).exclude(
     ...     pub_date__gte=datetime.date.today()
     ... ).filter(
-    ...     pub_date__gte=datetime(2005, 1, 30)
+    ...     pub_date__gte=datetime.date(2005, 1, 30)
     ... )
 
 This takes the initial :class:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet` of all entries