[docs] [issue12758] time.time() returns local time instead of UTC

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

On linux/posix, the epoch is *defined* to be 1970, 1, 1 in UTC.  Python just uses whatever the OS defines the epoch to be, as far as I know.

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