diff --git a/src/productcatalogservice/README.md b/src/productcatalogservice/README.md
index a68b398..5dc8fea 100644
--- a/src/productcatalogservice/README.md
+++ b/src/productcatalogservice/README.md
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ kubectl exec \
 This service has an `EXTRA_LATENCY` environment variable. This will inject a sleep for the specified [time.Duration](https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration) on every call to
 to the server.
 
-For example, use `EXTRA_LATENCY="5s500ms"` to sleep for 5.5 seconds on every request.
+For example, use `EXTRA_LATENCY="5.5s"` to sleep for 5.5 seconds on every request.