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Tloewald on Sept 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Date parsing performance on iOS (NSDateformatter v...

A leap second only lengthens one day.

In any event POSIX time stamps are fine w.r.t. leap seconds, it's the conversion functions which may or may not reflect them.

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