The current python documentation of the time module
(http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html) means that time.time()
returns the "seconds since the epoch, in UTC".

But in the current source documentation of the time module
(http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Modules/timemodule.c?rev=64048&view=markup)
is written that "time() -- return current time in seconds since the Epoch". 

time.time() returns the current local unix seconds during tests on a
system using Python 2.5.

Please adapt the documentation.

Thanks,
Carsten

I cannot see the difference. The docstring doesn't say "current local
time", it says "current time". What do you mean by "current local unix
seconds" - that phrase makes no sense.

time.time() returns the seoncds since the Epoch, and they must be
interpreted in UTC, always. So both documentation texts are correct, and
they say the same thing.

"current local unix seconds" means seconds since the Epoch in local
timezone.

I've attached a small example to show that is no difference between the
time returned by time.localtime() and time.time(). So I assume that
time.time() also returns local time and not UTC.

>>> time.mktime(time.localtime())
1214290130.0
>>> time.time()
1214290130.697067

I think you are misinterpreting what you are seeing. time.mktime returns
seconds since the Epoch, in UTC, when passed broken-down local time. So
that the result is the same as time.time() doesn't mean that time.time()
returns "local unix seconds" (there is no such thing), but it means that
both time.time() and time.mktime() return seconds since the Epoch, in UTC.

Closing as invalid.