diff --git a/crates/nu-utils/src/sample_config/default_config.nu b/crates/nu-utils/src/sample_config/default_config.nu
index 094eb4ff11..39ac14c19c 100644
--- a/crates/nu-utils/src/sample_config/default_config.nu
+++ b/crates/nu-utils/src/sample_config/default_config.nu
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ $env.config = {
   # Behavior without this configuration point will be to "humanize" the datetime display,
   # showing something like "a day ago."
   datetime_format: {
-    normal: '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'  # shows up in displays of variables or other datetime's outside of tables
-    table: '%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S%p'        # generally shows up in tabular outputs such as ls. commenting this out will change it to the default human readable datetime format
+    # normal: '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'  # shows up in displays of variables or other datetime's outside of tables
+    # table: '%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S%p'        # generally shows up in tabular outputs such as ls. commenting this out will change it to the default human readable datetime format
   }
 
   explore: {