https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4e87f4e605c1df2a87f963ce29b5e562d02cc71b
commit: 4e87f4e605c1df2a87f963ce29b5e562d02cc71b
branch: 3.14
author: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
date: 2026-08-06T17:41:02+03:00
summary:

[3.14] gh-76075: Correct `datetime.timestamp` documentation (GH-131202) 
(GH-155285)

(cherry picked from commit 86397cf65d024a39ae85b81d7f611ad4864a78b4)

Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/datetime.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index beef4f09f02f38..5e85da49e1c3b8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1531,11 +1531,11 @@ Instance methods:
    returned by :func:`time.time`.
 
    Naive :class:`.datetime` instances are assumed to represent local
-   time and this method relies on the platform C :c:func:`mktime`
-   function to perform the conversion. Since :class:`!datetime`
-   supports wider range of values than :c:func:`mktime` on many
-   platforms, this method may raise :exc:`OverflowError` or :exc:`OSError`
-   for times far in the past or far in the future.
+   time and this method relies on platform C functions to perform
+   the conversion. Since :class:`!datetime` supports a wider range of
+   values than the platform C functions on many platforms, this
+   method may raise :exc:`OverflowError` or :exc:`OSError` for times
+   far in the past or far in the future.
 
    For aware :class:`.datetime` instances, the return value is computed
    as::
@@ -1562,6 +1562,10 @@ Instance methods:
       The :meth:`timestamp` method uses the :attr:`.fold` attribute to
       disambiguate the times during a repeated interval.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+      This method no longer relies on the platform C :c:func:`mktime`
+      function to perform conversions.
+
 
 .. method:: datetime.weekday()
 

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