diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 1af7d6be750102..9ffbdb9649a9cf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -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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