changeset: 75690:5615d6b91b53 branch: 3.2 parent: 75682:fd0aceb20382 user: R David Murray date: Thu Mar 15 03:06:15 2012 -0400 files: Doc/library/time.rst description: #12758: removing confusing mention of UTC from time.time description Patch by Dylan Sarber. diff -r fd0aceb20382 -r 5615d6b91b53 Doc/library/time.rst --- a/Doc/library/time.rst Wed Mar 14 18:14:26 2012 -0700 +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst Thu Mar 15 03:06:15 2012 -0400 @@ -430,8 +430,8 @@ .. 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