Doc/library/time.rst - Issue 12758: time.time() returns local time instead of UTC

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Unified Diff: Doc/library/time.rst

Issue 12758: time.time() returns local time instead of UTC

Patch Set: Created 1 year, 2 months ago

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--- a/Doc/library/time.rst Sat Mar 10 23:43:12 2012 +0100

+++ b/Doc/library/time.rst Wed Mar 14 22:43:38 2012 -0700

@@ -443,8 +443,8 @@

.. function:: time()

- Return the time as a floating point number expressed in seconds since the epoch,

- in UTC. Note that even though the time is always returned as a floating point

+ Return the time in seconds since the epoch as a floating point number.

+ Note that even though the time is always returned as a floating point

number, not all systems provide time with a better precision than 1 second.

While this function normally returns non-decreasing values, it can return a

lower value than a previous call if the system clock has been set back between

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