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authorzed <isidore.john.r@gmail.com>2020-11-15 17:09:31 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-11-15 15:09:31 +0100
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remove misleading "in UTC" (#1882)
"seconds since the epoch" (value returned by `time.time()`) doesn't depend on the local time zone. It is the same time instance around the world. It is not in any particular time zone: ```python import datetime as DT import zoneinfo local_time = DT.datetime.fromtimestamp(seconds_since_epoch) # naive datetime object representing local time utc_time = DT.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(seconds_since_epoch) # naive datetime object representing utc time la_time = DT.datetime.fromtimestamp(seconds_since_epoch, zoneinfo.ZoneInfo("America/Los_Angeles")) # timezone aware dt ``` Here `local_time`, `utc_time`, `la_time` may correspond to different clock times but it is exactly the same time instance.
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@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ Process class
.. method:: create_time()
The process creation time as a floating point number expressed in seconds
- since the epoch, in UTC. The return value is cached after first call.
+ since the epoch. The return value is cached after first call.
>>> import psutil, datetime
>>> p = psutil.Process()