From f1522fcafca809afe1a3d65c7a874cbf2ebf4be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Rodewig <40268737+jrodewig@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 10:37:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Fix range query admon for clarity (#62163) (#62171)

---
 docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc
index f7ed686d5f5..f09e3805e16 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/range-query.asciidoc
@@ -65,11 +65,12 @@ For valid syntax, see <<mapping-date-format,`format`>>.
 [WARNING]
 ====
 If a `format` and `date` value are incomplete, {es} replaces any missing year,
-month, or date component with the start of
-{wikipedia}/Unix_time[Unix time], which is January 1st, 1970.
+month, or day component with the 
+{wikipedia}/Unix_time[Unix epoch], which is January 1st, 1970.
 
-For example, if the `format` value is `dd`, {es} converts a `gte` value of `10`
-to `1970-01-10T00:00:00.000Z`.
+For example, if the `format` value is `dd`, {es} converts a `gte` value of `22`
+to `1970-01-22T00:00:00.000Z`. This date uses `22` as the day of the month but
+uses the Unix epoch's year (`1970`) and month (`01`).
 ====
 
 --