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14 changes: 9 additions & 5 deletions Doc/library/datetime.rst
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@@ -1486,11 +1486,11 @@ 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::
@@ -1503,6 +1503,10 @@ 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.

.. note::

There is no method to obtain the POSIX timestamp directly from a
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