diff --git a/adafruit_datetime.py b/adafruit_datetime.py index 99e30a4..83dceef 100755 --- a/adafruit_datetime.py +++ b/adafruit_datetime.py @@ -1520,7 +1520,14 @@ def toordinal(self) -> int: return _ymd2ord(self._year, self._month, self._day) def timestamp(self) -> float: - "Return POSIX timestamp as float" + """Return POSIX timestamp as float. + + Note that Floats on most boards are encoded in 30 bits + internally, with effectively 22 bits of precision. As a result, + for modern dates this value can be off by several minutes. + As a workaround you can access the function ``_mktime()`` + to get an int version of the timestamp. + """ if not self._tzinfo is None: return (self - _EPOCH).total_seconds() s = self._mktime()