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gh-76075: Remove mentions of C's mktime in datetime.timestamp() #92796

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Remove mentions of C's mktime in datetime
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Expand Up @@ -1366,13 +1366,6 @@ Instance methods:
instance. The return value is a :class:`float` similar to that
returned by :func:`time.time`.

Naive :class:`.datetime` instances are assumed to represent local
time and this method relies on the platform C :c:func:`mktime`
function to perform the conversion. Since :class:`.datetime`
supports wider range of values than :c:func:`mktime` on many
platforms, this method may raise :exc:`OverflowError` for times far
in the past or far in the future.

For aware :class:`.datetime` instances, the return value is computed
as::

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