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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-15 03:06:15 -0400 |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-15 03:06:15 -0400 |
| commit | 38c27546520fea63bc7efb031f2a6255506d2c5c (patch) | |
| tree | a9ccee21d011b7d7e86cb56cd887030cf50938d4 | |
| parent | b7134998a56fe38309be0992a5bf053b49cbcd35 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-38c27546520fea63bc7efb031f2a6255506d2c5c.tar.gz | |
#12758: removing confusing mention of UTC from time.time description
Patch by Dylan Sarber.
| -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 7c464ac245..7854fbd4da 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -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 |