David Morley added the comment:
> I propose to add this sentence to the explanation of the epoch:
>
> "It is platform-dependent whether or not 'seconds since the epoch'
> includes leap seconds. Most systems likely implement `Unix time`_"
That solution is fine
David Morley added the comment:
- My use of mktime was a bad choice for an example, since "local time"
is not defined and does not necessarily bear any relationship to UTC.
However the documentation does claim that time.gmtime converts "a time
expressed in seconds since t
New submission from David Morley :
There is a systemic error in the Python documentation on time (such as
<http://docs.python.org/library/time.html>). The term UTC is used
incorrectly in the documentation where the term UT1 should be used.
The difference is that UTC includes leap s
