docs: for time.localtime()

[hasenradball]

Hi Together,

I would remark that this description in the Doc is a little bit missleading.

'''
time.mktime()
https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/time.html
This is inverse function of localtime. It’s argument is a full 8-tuple which expresses a time as per localtime. It returns an integer which is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 2000.
''''

Because on the Pico W the RTC works with the epoch since 1970.
Maybe a small redesign of this description would be perfect, my opinion.

A other point is that I want to aks what the actual status is about:
time.gmtime()
time.localtime()

Is there actually a Timezone information available in micropython?
If not Iam right that these two functions leads to the same result in time structure?

Thanks
Frank

[peterhinch]

There is no timezone support in MicroPython.

[robert-hh]

@hasenradball, thank you for your comment. Since you see the need, please suggest a fix for the documentation by submitting a pull request for it.

[hasenradball]

Is there also no Timzone Support planned?
It would be really great if a Timezone support possible.

[robert-hh]

AFAIK, there is not timezone support planned. It's not worth the effort and resources needed for it. If you need it, you can make your own derived class based on the RTC class supporting it.

[peterhinch]

@hasenradball The fact that the epoch varies between platforms is not great. You can determine it with

gmtime(0)[0]

[jonnor]

Does anyone have concrete suggestions for improvements to the documentation? If not I suggest closing this issue, as the questions have been answered.