[issue36240] Definitions of time

Paul Ganssle added the comment: I also think it would be ideal to avoid getting into too much detail about the definitions of UTC and GMT in a general sense. Instead, we should probably refer to some better source on the matter and maybe focus on how UTC and GMT are used *in this document*?

[issue36240] Definitions of time

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: How about replacing "formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT" with "which superseded Greenwich Mean Time or GMT as the basis of international timekeeping"? I don't think Python reference manual is the right place to explain the difference

[issue36240] Definitions of time

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[issue36240] Definitions of time

New submission from Robert Billing : https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/time.html contains the text "UTC is Coordinated Universal Time (formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT)". This is not strictly true. Referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time the