diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc
index 3c216ca58f7..94b01506305 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc
@@ -109,12 +109,13 @@ accepts it), or it can be specified as the `time_zone` parameter:
     "range" : {
         "timestamp" : {
             "gte": "2015-01-01 00:00:00", <1>
-            "lte": "now",
+            "lte": "now", <2>
             "time_zone": "+01:00"
         }
     }
 }
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 <1> This date will be converted to `2014-12-31T23:00:00 UTC`.
+<2> `now` is not affected by the `time_zone` parameter (dates should be stored as UTC).