doc: clarify fs.utimes() arguments

Make it clear that atime and mtime should be in seconds.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/8651
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ilkka Myller <ilkka.myller@nodefield.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
index 2b9369ffa3..99e23e7a5a 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ added: v0.1.31
 Asynchronous realpath(3). The `callback` gets two arguments `(err,
 resolvedPath)`. May use `process.cwd` to resolve relative paths.
 
-Only paths that can be converted to UTF8 strings are supported. 
+Only paths that can be converted to UTF8 strings are supported.
 
 The optional `options` argument can be a string specifying an encoding, or an
 object with an `encoding` property specifying the character encoding to use for
@@ -1637,13 +1637,15 @@ added: v0.4.2
 
 Change file timestamps of the file referenced by the supplied path.
 
-Note: the arguments `atime` and `mtime` of the following related functions does
-follow the below rules:
+Note: the arguments `atime` and `mtime` of the following related functions
+follow these rules:
 
-- If the value is a numberable string like `'123456789'`, the value would get
-  converted to corresponding number.
-- If the value is `NaN` or `Infinity`, the value would get converted to
-  `Date.now()`.
+- The value should be a Unix timestamp in seconds. For example, `Date.now()`
+  returns milliseconds, so it should be divided by 1000 before passing it in.
+- If the value is a numeric string like `'123456789'`, the value will get
+  converted to the corresponding number.
+- If the value is `NaN` or `Infinity`, the value will get converted to
+  `Date.now() / 1000`.
 
 ## fs.utimesSync(path, atime, mtime)
 <!-- YAML