diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index e0b28d7cb978d9..e387496b9fc624 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1364,14 +1364,8 @@ Instance methods: Return POSIX timestamp corresponding to the :class:`.datetime` instance. The return value is a :class:`float` similar to that - 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` for times far - in the past or far in the future. + returned by :func:`time.time`. Raises :exc:`OSError` for times far in the + past or far in the future. For aware :class:`.datetime` instances, the return value is computed as::
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