diff --git a/src/libCom/osi/epicsTime.cpp b/src/libCom/osi/epicsTime.cpp
index aed699474..d8bfc7e01 100644
--- a/src/libCom/osi/epicsTime.cpp
+++ b/src/libCom/osi/epicsTime.cpp
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ epicsTimeLoadTimeInit::epicsTimeLoadTimeInit ()
 //
 inline void epicsTime::addNanoSec (long nSecAdj)
 {
-    // After qptimizing this function we now have a larger
+    // After optimizing this function we now have a larger
     // code which uses only unsigned integer arithmetic.
     // This is for the benefit of embedded cpu's lacking
     // a hardware floating point coprocessor at the