Does Python's time.time() return the local or UTC timestamp?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1389...

Accepted answer links:
[time.time()]: https://docs.python.org/library/time.htm...
[the epoch]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch

Answer 4 links:
[POSIX defintion for "Seconds Since the Epoch"]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/969...
[How can I get a date converted to seconds since epoch according to UTC?]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8778548/4279

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