diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 172707c9..db91f80b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ Local plugin filenames must be valid python module names, therefore must consist
 
 ### Caveats
 
-#### Locale:
+#### Locale
 
 For best results set the `LANG` locale environment variable to `C` or `en_US.UTF-8`. For example, either by setting directly on the command-line:
 ```
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ or by exporting to the environment before running commands:
 $ export LANG=C
 ```
 
-#### Timezones:
+#### Timezones
 
 Some parsers have calculated epoch timestamp fields added to the output. Unless a timestamp field name has a `_utc` suffix it is considered naive. (i.e. based on the local timezone of the system the `jc` parser was run on).
 
diff --git a/templates/readme_template b/templates/readme_template
index b8a9332d..494449cf 100644
--- a/templates/readme_template
+++ b/templates/readme_template
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Local plugin filenames must be valid python module names, therefore must consist
 
 ### Caveats
 
-#### Locale:
+#### Locale
 
 For best results set the `LANG` locale environment variable to `C` or `en_US.UTF-8`. For example, either by setting directly on the command-line:
 ```
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ or by exporting to the environment before running commands:
 $ export LANG=C
 ```
 
-#### Timezones:
+#### Timezones
 
 Some parsers have calculated epoch timestamp fields added to the output. Unless a timestamp field name has a `_utc` suffix it is considered naive. (i.e. based on the local timezone of the system the `jc` parser was run on).