diff --git a/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt b/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
index af2a5474d8..6ed9004157 100644
--- a/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ like so:
 
 .. code-block:: html+django
 
-    {% get_current_time "%Y-%M-%d %I:%M %p" as my_current_time %}
+    {% current_time "%Y-%M-%d %I:%M %p" as my_current_time %}
     <p>The current time is {{ my_current_time }}.</p>
 
 To do that, you'll need to refactor both the compilation function and ``Node``