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Author	pitrou
Recipients	akira, christian.heimes, docs@python, giampaolo.rodola, gudge, janssen, pitrou
Date	2013-12-10.13:46:53
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Indeed the example in the docs is wrong, and so is the current behaviour. The example shows "round-tripping" using ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() and then time.ctime(), except that it is bogus as it takes a GMT time and ctime() returns a local time ("""Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing local time"""). Still, we should only fix it in 3.4, as code written for prior versions may rely on the current (bogus) behaviour.

Indeed the example in the docs is wrong, and so is the current behaviour.

The example shows "round-tripping" using ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() and then time.ctime(), except that it is bogus as it takes a GMT time and ctime() returns a local time ("""Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing local time""").

Still, we should only fix it in 3.4, as code written for prior versions may rely on the current (bogus) behaviour.

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