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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex index f530a47..0e14f4c 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex @@ -80,21 +80,28 @@ this, where available). \item The time tuple as returned by \function{gmtime()}, \function{localtime()}, and \function{strptime()}, and accepted by -\function{asctime()}, \function{mktime()} and \function{strftime()}, is a -tuple of 9 integers: year (e.g.\ 1993), month (1--12), day (1--31), -hour (0--23), minute (0--59), second (0--59), weekday (0--6, monday is -0), Julian day (1--366) and daylight savings flag (-1, 0 or 1). -Note that unlike the \C{} structure, the month value is a range of 1-12, not -0-11. A year value less than 100 will typically be silently converted to -1900 plus the year value. A \code{-1} argument as daylight savings -flag, passed to \function{mktime()} will usually result in the correct -daylight savings state to be filled in. +\function{asctime()}, \function{mktime()} and \function{strftime()}, +is a tuple of 9 integers: year (e.g.\ 1993), month (1--12), day +(1--31), hour (0--23), minute (0--59), second (0--59), weekday (0--6, +monday is 0), Julian day (1--366) and daylight savings flag (-1, 0 or +1). Note that unlike the \C{} structure, the month value is a range +of 1-12, not 0-11. A year value will be handled as descibed under +``Year 2000 (Y2K) issues'' above. A \code{-1} argument as daylight +savings flag, passed to \function{mktime()} will usually result in the +correct daylight savings state to be filled in. \end{itemize} The module defines the following functions and data items: +\begin{datadesc}{accept2dyear} +Boolean value indicating whether two-digit year values will be +accepted. This is true by default, but will be set to false if the +environment variable \envvar{PYTHONY2K} has been set to a non-empty +string. It may also be modified at run time. +\end{datadesc} + \begin{datadesc}{altzone} The offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of the 0th meridian, if one is defined. Negative if the local DST timezone is |