From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:11:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add doc for timegm().
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~1265
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4727456d46d54ba0b61878251db823bf15182e60;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add doc for timegm().
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex b/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex
index 0c7207b5fd0e..59e344347cad 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex
@@ -46,3 +46,11 @@ week will use.
 \begin{funcdesc}{prcal}{year}
 Prints the calendar for the year \var{year}.
 \end{funcdesc}
+
+\begin{funcdesc}{timegm}{tuple}
+An unrelated but handy function that takes a time tuple such are
+returned by the \function{gmtime()} function in the \module{time}
+module, and returns the corresponding Unix timestamp value, assuming
+an epoch of 1970, and the POSIX encoding.  In fact,
+\function{gmtime()} and \function{timegm()} are each others inverse.
+\end{funcdesc}