diff --git a/docs/connector-development/config-based/tutorial/5-incremental-reads.md b/docs/connector-development/config-based/tutorial/5-incremental-reads.md
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@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ definitions:
 
 and refer to it in the stream's retriever.
 This will generate slices from the start time until the end time, where each slice is exactly one day.
-The start time is defined in the config file, while the end time is defined by the `now_local()` macro, which will evaluate to the current date in the current timezone at runtime. See the section on [string interpolation](../advanced-topics.md#string-interpolation) for more details.
+The start time is defined in the config file, while the end time is defined by the `now_utc()` macro, which will evaluate to the current date in the current timezone at runtime. See the section on [string interpolation](../advanced-topics.md#string-interpolation) for more details.
 
 Note that we're also setting the `stream_cursor_field` in the stream's `$options` so it can be accessed by the `StreamSlicer`: