diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index a7eafc471f..d174d16aac 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -2437,7 +2437,7 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
linkend="view-pg-timezone-names">).
PostgreSQL uses the widely-used IANA
time zone data for this purpose, so the same time zone
- names are also recognized by much other software.
+ names are also recognized other software.