diff --git a/adafruit_datetime.py b/adafruit_datetime.py
index 83dceef..216ef5d 100755
--- a/adafruit_datetime.py
+++ b/adafruit_datetime.py
@@ -1520,18 +1520,10 @@ def toordinal(self) -> int:
         return _ymd2ord(self._year, self._month, self._day)
 
     def timestamp(self) -> 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.
-        """
+        """Return POSIX timestamp as int, similar to the value returned by ``time.time()``."""
         if not self._tzinfo is None:
             return (self - _EPOCH).total_seconds()
-        s = self._mktime()
-        return s + self.microsecond / 1e6
+        return self._mktime()
 
     def weekday(self) -> int:
         """Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6."""
diff --git a/tests/test_datetime.py b/tests/test_datetime.py
index 6c4d5f1..bab3b64 100644
--- a/tests/test_datetime.py
+++ b/tests/test_datetime.py
@@ -527,8 +527,8 @@ def test_utcfromtimestamp(self):
     def test_timestamp_naive(self):
         t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1)
         self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), 18000.0)
-        t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4)
-        self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), 18000.0 + 3600 + 2 * 60 + 3 + 4 * 1e-6)
+        t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3)
+        self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), 18000.0 + 3600 + 2 * 60 + 3)
         # Missing hour
         t0 = self.theclass(2012, 3, 11, 2, 30)
         t1 = t0.replace(fold=1)