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Utility Services consists of several independent APIs that are either useful with more than one Core Foundation service, or are too small to stand as a separate service. Utility Services allows you to work with operating-system independent dates and times, perform byte swapping, convert numbers into a form that can be used in property lists, and generate UUIDs for use with Core Foundation plug-ins.

Utility Services This document describes the various APIs that make up Utility Services and explains how each is used in conjunction with other Core Foundation Services.   Overview This document summarizes the benefits of Core Foundation and explains some of the key concepts, such as opaque types, reference counting, and memory management.