Blxter to TechnologyEnglish • edit-28 months agoInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down16 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1999arrow-down1external-linkInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comBlxter to TechnologyEnglish • edit-28 months agomessage-square56fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish199•8 months agoWtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not “85”. Respect.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish92•8 months agoBetter to represent it as a 64-bit unsigned fixed-point number, in seconds relative to 0000 UT on 1 January 1900. It’s how he would have wanted it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish68•8 months agoNo. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
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minus-square@PacmanliveslinkEnglish12•8 months agoArsTechina is not what it once was sadly. Still one of the better news sites but that would have been something you would have seen 10 years ago
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoAnd to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.
Wtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not “85”. Respect.
Better to represent it as a 64-bit unsigned fixed-point number, in seconds relative to 0000 UT on 1 January 1900. It’s how he would have wanted it.
Not 1970?
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
Epoch comeback!
ArsTechina is not what it once was sadly. Still one of the better news sites but that would have been something you would have seen 10 years ago
And to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.