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Author vstinner
Recipients belopolsky, docs@python, lemburg, vstinner
Date 2016-12-20.15:07:03
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> time.time() is not quite UTC on Unix

Handling time is a complex task, so we should enhance the doc to help users.

If there are multiple cases, we can list them: "time.time() uses UTC timezone with or without leap seconds". Maybe with a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time ?
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