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7.1 POSIX Time

In POSIX systems time is encoded as a certain number of seconds elapsed since some origin date, namely the first of January 1970. The time pickle provides two types for 32-bit and 64-bit POSIX time encodings:

POSIX_Time32
POSIX_Time64

A function ptime is also provided, that prints a human-readable representation of a POSIX date, given a number of seconds.