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Diffstat (limited to 'time.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | time.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -5697,8 +5697,9 @@ rb_time_zone_abbreviation(VALUE zone, VALUE time) /* * Time is an abstraction of dates and times. Time is stored internally as - * the number of seconds with fraction since the _Epoch_, January 1, 1970 - * 00:00 UTC. Also see the library module Date. The Time class treats GMT + * the number of seconds with fraction since the _Epoch_, + * 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. + * The Time class treats GMT * (Greenwich Mean Time) and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) as equivalent. * GMT is the older way of referring to these baseline times but persists in * the names of calls on POSIX systems. |