diff --git a/cmd/prometheus/main.go b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
index 165c275f2..f09c88d01 100644
--- a/cmd/prometheus/main.go
+++ b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ func main() {
 	a.Flag("rules.alert.resend-delay", "Minimum amount of time to wait before resending an alert to Alertmanager.").
 		Default("1m").SetValue(&cfg.resendDelay)
 
-	a.Flag("scrape.adjust-timestamps", "Adjust scrape timestamps by up to 2ms to align them to the intended schedule. See https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/7846 for more context. Experimental. This flag will be removed in the future.").
+	a.Flag("scrape.adjust-timestamps", "Adjust scrape timestamps by up to 2ms to align them to the intended schedule. See https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/7846 for more context. Experimental. This flag will be removed in a future release.").
 		Hidden().Default("true").BoolVar(&scrape.AlignScrapeTimestamps)
 
 	a.Flag("alertmanager.notification-queue-capacity", "The capacity of the queue for pending Alertmanager notifications.").
diff --git a/scrape/scrape.go b/scrape/scrape.go
index 4fc4ef5e6..d52b0ac7f 100644
--- a/scrape/scrape.go
+++ b/scrape/scrape.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ import (
 // See https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/7846
 const scrapeTimestampTolerance = 2 * time.Millisecond
 
-// Enable or disable the tolerance for scrape appends timestamps described above.
+// AlignScrapeTimestamps enables the tolerance for scrape appends timestamps described above.
 var AlignScrapeTimestamps = true
 
 var errNameLabelMandatory = fmt.Errorf("missing metric name (%s label)", labels.MetricName)