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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-15 07:09:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-15 07:09:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 7cc7033cb428ad74366f93e8ebcb4bb74f3f6511 (patch) | |
| tree | c001244fcf1be14ca898735055efcb2a2804d31e | |
| parent | d3d7c903e6ee86d54d7fdb720ce81f24ee75e316 (diff) | |
| parent | 38c27546520fea63bc7efb031f2a6255506d2c5c (diff) | |
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Merge #12758: removing confusing mention of UTC from time.time description
Patch by Dylan Sarber.
(Not sure why hg told me it merged pyexpat.c too, it showed no changes)
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/time.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index fcee551..3e666cf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items: .. 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 |