diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8226ad3d1da..1959bb8f32a 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2734,7 +2734,7 @@ days there are in a month in a specific year), 'date-ordinal-to-time'
 (that computes the date of an ordinal day), 'decoded-time-add' (for
 doing computations on a decoded time structure), 'make-decoded-time'
 (for making a decoded time structure with only the given keywords
-filled out), and 'encoded-time-set-defaults' (which fills in nil
+filled out), and 'decoded-time-set-defaults' (which fills in nil
 elements as if it's midnight January 1st, 1970) have been added.
 
 *** In the DST slot, 'encode-time' and 'parse-time-string' now return -1