Every device in my house is within 1-second of every other.
Meanwhile, my new oven’s clock drifts by over a minute in just a few days after setting it to the correct time, smh
Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Man, I so love NTP. Y’all younglings have no idea what it was like in the day.
Us kids would literally “synchronize watches”, like in the old war movies. We’d call the free “time and temperature” number to sync up. No one’s clocks matched exactly. Now we just take it for granted.
Every device in my house is within 1-second of every other. LOL, I meet with people all over the globe on Zoom, and we’re all on time. To the second.
NTP is so critical for the information age, I can’t overstate it. If you’re not a programmer or other such nerd, it’s hard to get your head around how complex the NTP protocol is. Yet it works wonderfully! Much, much respect.
hikaru755@feddit.de 5 months ago
xpinchx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol I was very much doing the same as a kid, but this comment read like an old timer telling of an age long ago. I legit typed out “that was interesting man, thanks for sharing”.
Not sure wether to laugh or cry because I’m so old 😂
ApeNo1@lemm.ee 5 months ago
In Australia there was a toll free number you could dial that was a recorded person reading out the time 24/7. That voice is forever etched in my mind.
“At the third stroke, it will be 7:35 and 15 seconds" beep, beep, beep
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Same in the UK, the speaking clock on (it had various numbers over the years but the most memorable was) 123.