From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:44:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: indicate that mktime is platform-dependent.  See SF bug 434143.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~384
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f10f84028c9744b6b1f709ff6217c5c9b07ab89;p=python

indicate that mktime is platform-dependent.  See SF bug 434143.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
index 2e9de609ce..d28e8638ee 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ is the full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use \code{-1} as
 the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in
 \emph{local} time, not UTC.  It returns a floating point number, for
 compatibility with \function{time()}.  If the input value cannot be
-represented as a valid time, \exception{OverflowError} is raised.
+represented as a valid time, \exception{OverflowError} is raised.  The
+earliest date for which it can generate a time is platform-dependent.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{sleep}{secs}