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
Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wtf is this headline? When this guy dies you put the GMT he died at in hours, minutes, seconds. Not “85”. Respect.
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 1 year ago
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
And to think we want to abolish leap seconds because they are ‘too hard’.
tychosmoose@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
geogle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not 1970?
tychosmoose@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No. 1970 is 0 in Unix time. The NTP RFC specifies 1900. I had to look it up!
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Epoch comeback!
kelseybcool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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