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authorlit <litlighilit@foxmail.com>2024-04-19 11:28:46 (GMT)
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gh-88035: update doc-string of `epoch` in timemodule.c (GH-118076)
Follow #88035, update doc-string of epoch in timemodule.c The epoch is `January 1st, 1970 on all platforms`, according to current documentation.
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diff --git a/Modules/timemodule.c b/Modules/timemodule.c
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@@ -1896,8 +1896,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(module_doc,
There are two standard representations of time. One is the number\n\
of seconds since the Epoch, in UTC (a.k.a. GMT). It may be an integer\n\
or a floating point number (to represent fractions of seconds).\n\
-The Epoch is system-defined; on Unix, it is generally January 1st, 1970.\n\
-The actual value can be retrieved by calling gmtime(0).\n\
+The epoch is the point where the time starts, the return value of time.gmtime(0).\n\
+It is January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 (UTC) on all platforms.\n\
\n\
The other representation is a tuple of 9 integers giving local time.\n\
The tuple items are:\n\