Re: [Python-ideas] Moving calendar.timegm() to time module Was: Rename time module to "posixtime"

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:14:46 -0400 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> wrote:

This is discussed in Issue 6280 <http://bugs.python.org/issue6280>. There are several issues with this proposal:

1. According to help(time),

""" The Epoch is system-defined; on Unix, it is generally January 1st, 1970.

What does *generally* mean? Are there, practically, other systems where the epoch is another reference?