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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 3470f42a6c6..16ed3215bc2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1502,11 +1502,11 @@ Instance methods: returned by :func:`time.time`. Naive :class:`.datetime` instances are assumed to represent local - time and this method relies on the platform C :c:func:`mktime` - function to perform the conversion. Since :class:`.datetime` - supports wider range of values than :c:func:`mktime` on many - platforms, this method may raise :exc:`OverflowError` or :exc:`OSError` - for times far in the past or far in the future. + time and this method relies on platform C functions to perform + the conversion. Since :class:`.datetime` supports a wider range of + values than the platform C functions on many platforms, this + method may raise :exc:`OverflowError` or :exc:`OSError` for times + far in the past or far in the future. For aware :class:`.datetime` instances, the return value is computed as:: @@ -1519,6 +1519,10 @@ Instance methods: The :meth:`timestamp` method uses the :attr:`.fold` attribute to disambiguate the times during a repeated interval. + .. versionchanged:: 3.6 + This method no longer relies on the platform C :c:func:`mktime` + function to perform conversions. + .. note:: There is no method to obtain the POSIX timestamp directly from a |