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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2012-03-15 07:06:15 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2012-03-15 07:06:15 (GMT)
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#12758: removing confusing mention of UTC from time.time description
Patch by Dylan Sarber.
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@@ -430,8 +430,8 @@ 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