Dec. 20, 2016
8:59 a.m.
Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: time.time() is not quite UTC on Unix: it usually (*) doesn't include leap seconds, which UTC does. The Wikipedia page has a good definition and explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time (*) "usually" because POSIX defines time() to not include leap seconds, but on some older or not quite POSIX compliant Unix systems, leap seconds are included. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29026> _______________________________________