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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-06-09 15:11:58 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-06-09 15:11:58 (GMT)
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Add doc for timegm().
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\begin{funcdesc}{prcal}{year}
Prints the calendar for the year \var{year}.
\end{funcdesc}
+
+\begin{funcdesc}{timegm}{tuple}
+An unrelated but handy function that takes a time tuple such are
+returned by the \function{gmtime()} function in the \module{time}
+module, and returns the corresponding Unix timestamp value, assuming
+an epoch of 1970, and the POSIX encoding. In fact,
+\function{gmtime()} and \function{timegm()} are each others inverse.
+\end{funcdesc}