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diff --git a/docs/library/utime.rst b/docs/library/utime.rst index 7fe83f5abe..8c222ede5f 100644 --- a/docs/library/utime.rst +++ b/docs/library/utime.rst @@ -36,11 +36,17 @@ behave not as expected. Functions --------- -.. function:: localtime([secs]) +.. function:: gmtime([secs]) + localtime([secs]) - Convert a time expressed in seconds since the Epoch (see above) into an 8-tuple which - contains: (year, month, mday, hour, minute, second, weekday, yearday) - If secs is not provided or None, then the current time from the RTC is used. + Convert the time *secs* expressed in seconds since the Epoch (see above) into an + 8-tuple which contains: ``(year, month, mday, hour, minute, second, weekday, yearday)`` + If *secs* is not provided or None, then the current time from the RTC is used. + + The `gmtime()` function returns a date-time tuple in UTC, and `localtime()` returns a + date-time tuple in local time. + + The format of the entries in the 8-tuple are: * year includes the century (for example 2014). * month is 1-12 |