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A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time.

A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

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Manage leap seconds in time management

I just learned that a leap second will be added at the end of this month (june 2015). I'm a little bit affraid about that, because I manage my own time class. I'm not sure it's robust enough. I created a class Instant working with a unsigned long…
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