diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 2498361c03d..00569a845a4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ Instance methods:
    of the result is set according to the :meth:`dst` method: :attr:`tzinfo` is
    ``None`` or :meth:`dst`` returns ``None``, :attr:`tm_isdst` is set to ``-1``;
    else if :meth:`dst` returns a non-zero value, :attr:`tm_isdst` is set to ``1``;
-   else ``tm_isdst`` is set to ``0``.
+   else :attr:`tm_isdst` is set to ``0``.
 
 
 .. method:: datetime.utctimetuple()