diff --git a/docs/library/time.rst b/docs/library/time.rst
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@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ Functions
 
    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.
+   the number of seconds since the epoch - usually Jan 1, 1970 (Epoch year 
+   may be determined with ``gmtime(0)[0]``).
 
 .. function:: sleep(seconds)