diff --git a/src/widgets/TimeTextCtrl.cpp b/src/widgets/TimeTextCtrl.cpp
index 5cc8a3e01..02d63d7ef 100644
--- a/src/widgets/TimeTextCtrl.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/TimeTextCtrl.cpp
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ TimeTextCtrl::TimeTextCtrl(wxWindow *parent,
    BuiltinFormatStrings[5].formatStr = _("0100 h 060 m 060 s+.# samples");
    /* i18n-hint: Name of time display format that shows time in samples (at the
     * current project sample rate).  For example the number of a sample at 1 
-    * second into a recording at 4410KHz would be 4,410,000.
+    * second into a recording at 44.1KHz would be 44,100.
     */
    BuiltinFormatStrings[6].name = _("samples");
    /* i18n-hint: Format string for displaying time in samples (lots of samples).