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diff Doc/lib/libtime.tex @ 13384:eacb2e51e169 legacy-trunk
Correct a markup nit that caused a space to be dropped from the HTML
version (actually a LaTeX2HTML bug), and clarified a sentence in the
mktime() description based entirely on comments from Grant Griffin
<grant.griffin@honeywell.com>.
| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> |
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| date | Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:09:02 +0000 |
| parents | 915d985918e2 |
| children | fdfd1049f36e |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex Thu Jul 06 17:58:06 2000 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex Thu Jul 06 18:09:02 2000 +0000 @@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ \begin{funcdesc}{mktime}{tuple} This is the inverse function of \function{localtime()}. Its argument -is the full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed --- pass \code{-1} -as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in +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.