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Author lemburg
Recipients belopolsky, docs@python, lemburg, vstinner
Date 2016-12-20.14:59:11
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time.time() is not quite UTC on Unix: it usually (*) doesn't include leap seconds, which UTC does.

The Wikipedia page has a good definition and explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

(*) "usually" because POSIX defines time() to not include leap seconds, but on some older or not quite POSIX compliant Unix systems, leap seconds are included.
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